Unauthorized Bread: Real rebellions involve jailbreaking IoT toasters

Enlarge / Now that is some artisanal toast. (credit: Tor Books)

"Unauthorized Bread"-a tale of jailbreaking refugees versus IoTappliances-is the lead novella in author Cory Doctorow's Radicalized, which has just been named a finalist for the CanadianBroadcasting Corporation's national book award, the Canada Reads prize. "Unauthorized Bread" is also in development for television with Topic, parentcompany of The Intercept; and for a graphic novel adaptation by First Second Books, in collaboration with the artist and comics creator JR Doyle. It appears below with permission from the author.

The way Salima found out that Boulangism had gone bankrupt: her toaster wouldn't accept her bread. She held the slice in front of it and waited for the screen to show her a thumbs-up emoji, but instead, it showed her the head-scratching face and made a soft brrt. She waved the bread again. Brrt.

"Come on." Brrt.

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