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"This book is fundamental. It will define the debate about the future of the Internet, long after we haven't stopped it. Absolutely required reading."-Lawrence Lessig, Professor, Stanford Law School, and author of Free Culture and The Future of Ideas (Lawrence Lessig 20080531)
"This remarkably researched and highly entertaining book is a must-read for all who take the ubiquitous nature of the Internet in our everyday lives for granted. The future of the internet is NOT a positive one, unless we all work collaboratively to ensure its lasting success. Zittrain's analysis is first-class and should be widely heeded by leaders from all sectors of society."-Dr. Klaus Schwab, Executive Chairman and Founder of the World Economic Forum (Dr. Klaus Schwab 20080701)
"The most compelling book ever written on why a transformative technology's trajectory threatens to stifle that technology's greatest promise for society. Zittrain offers convincing road maps for redeeming that promise."-Laurence H. Tribe, Carl M. Loeb University Professor and Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School (Laurence H. Tribe 20081203)
"Jonathan Zittrain does what no one has before-he eloquently and subtly pinpoints the magic that makes Wikipedia, and the Internet as a whole, work. The best way to save the Internet is to turn off your laptop until you've read this book."-Jimbo Wales, Founder, Wikipedia (Jimbo Wales )
"A superb and alarming discussion, from one of the most astute and forward-looking analysts of the Internet. Zittrain explains how the glorious promise of the Internet might not be realized-and points the way toward reducing the current risks. Absolutely essential reading."-Cass Sunstein, Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence, The University of Chicago Law School, and co-author of Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Cass Sunstein )
"A useful starting point to understanding the choices that lie ahead."-Richard Waters, Los Angeles Times (Richard Waters Los Angeles Times )
"The Future of the Internet identifies and analyzes many of the key issues, obstacles, and tradeoffs that will define our future."-Science (Science )
"In the web counterrevolution that Jonathan Zittrain foresees, users will lose the ability to control content, companies will gain the power to censor data, and security will trump innovation. It's a gloomy scenario that his new book Future of the Internet, says is already underway."-Katie Baker, Newsweek (Katie Baker Newsweek )
"The thrust of Zittrain's book is that the shift back toward sterile technology cannot be entirely avoided, though the dangers can be mitigated. . . . Ignore Zittrain's warnings and we may prove his forecast right."-Paul Starr, The American Prospect (Paul Starr The American Prospect )
"This book is a must-read for any student of technology and policy, and its prescriptions are a must-do for the future of innovation in the digital age."-Hal Abelson, American Scientist (Hal Abelson American Scientist )
"This remarkably researched and highly entertaining book is a must-read for all who take the ubiquitous nature of the Internet in our everyday lives for granted. The future of the internet is NOT a positive one, unless we all work collaboratively to ensure its lasting success. Zittrain's analysis is first-class and should be widely heeded by leaders from all sectors of society."-Dr. Klaus Schwab, Executive Chairman and Founder of the World Economic Forum (Dr. Klaus Schwab 20080701)
"The most compelling book ever written on why a transformative technology's trajectory threatens to stifle that technology's greatest promise for society. Zittrain offers convincing road maps for redeeming that promise."-Laurence H. Tribe, Carl M. Loeb University Professor and Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School (Laurence H. Tribe 20081203)
"Jonathan Zittrain does what no one has before-he eloquently and subtly pinpoints the magic that makes Wikipedia, and the Internet as a whole, work. The best way to save the Internet is to turn off your laptop until you've read this book."-Jimbo Wales, Founder, Wikipedia (Jimbo Wales )
"A superb and alarming discussion, from one of the most astute and forward-looking analysts of the Internet. Zittrain explains how the glorious promise of the Internet might not be realized-and points the way toward reducing the current risks. Absolutely essential reading."-Cass Sunstein, Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence, The University of Chicago Law School, and co-author of Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Cass Sunstein )
"A useful starting point to understanding the choices that lie ahead."-Richard Waters, Los Angeles Times (Richard Waters Los Angeles Times )
"The Future of the Internet identifies and analyzes many of the key issues, obstacles, and tradeoffs that will define our future."-Science (Science )
"In the web counterrevolution that Jonathan Zittrain foresees, users will lose the ability to control content, companies will gain the power to censor data, and security will trump innovation. It's a gloomy scenario that his new book Future of the Internet, says is already underway."-Katie Baker, Newsweek (Katie Baker Newsweek )
"The thrust of Zittrain's book is that the shift back toward sterile technology cannot be entirely avoided, though the dangers can be mitigated. . . . Ignore Zittrain's warnings and we may prove his forecast right."-Paul Starr, The American Prospect (Paul Starr The American Prospect )
"This book is a must-read for any student of technology and policy, and its prescriptions are a must-do for the future of innovation in the digital age."-Hal Abelson, American Scientist (Hal Abelson American Scientist )
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This extraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity—and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path to a lockdown, ending its cycle of innovation—and facilitating unsettling new kinds of control.
IPods, iPhones, Xboxes, and TiVos represent the first wave of Internet-centered products that can’t be easily modified by anyone except their vendors or selected partners. These “tethered appliances” have already been used in remarkable but little-known ways: car GPS systems have been reconfigured at the demand of law enforcement to eavesdrop on the occupants at all times, and digital video recorders have been ordered to self-destruct thanks to a lawsuit against the manufacturer thousands of miles away. New Web 2.0 platforms like Google mash-ups and Facebook are rightly touted—but their applications can be similarly monitored and eliminated from a central source. As tethered appliances and applications eclipse the PC, the very nature of the Internet—its “generativity,” or innovative character—is at risk.
The Internet’s current trajectory is one of lost opportunity. Its salvation, Zittrain argues, lies in the hands of its millions of users. Drawing on generative technologies like Wikipedia that have so far survived their own successes, this book shows how to develop new technologies and social structures that allow users to work creatively and collaboratively, participate in solutions, and become true “netizens.”
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tethered appliances, generative dilemma, group generativity, procrastination principle, reputation bankruptcy, generative technologies, perfect enforcement, network neutrality, generative pattern, cheap processors, technical layer, cheap networks, generative tools, less generative, cheap sensors, bad code, wiki software, generative systems, proprietary networks, proprietary services, free software movement, information appliances Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
After the Stall, Meeting the Risks of Generativity, The Generative Pattern, Generative Future, The Lessons of Wikipedia, United States, Creative Commons, Generative Net, Battle of the Networks, Internet Protocol, Jimbo Wales, Google Maps, Von Hippel, Internet Service Providers, Paul Vixie, South Korea, Microsoft Windows, Battle of the Boxes, Richard Stallman, New York Times, Swiss Army, Star Wars Kid, Supreme Court, Larry Sanger, How's My Driving Browse Sample Pages:
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tethered appliances, generative dilemma, group generativity, procrastination principle, reputation bankruptcy, generative technologies, perfect enforcement, network neutrality, generative pattern, cheap processors, technical layer, cheap networks, generative tools, less generative, cheap sensors, bad code, wiki software, generative systems, proprietary networks, proprietary services, free software movement, information appliances Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
After the Stall, Meeting the Risks of Generativity, The Generative Pattern, Generative Future, The Lessons of Wikipedia, United States, Creative Commons, Generative Net, Battle of the Networks, Internet Protocol, Jimbo Wales, Google Maps, Von Hippel, Internet Service Providers, Paul Vixie, South Korea, Microsoft Windows, Battle of the Boxes, Richard Stallman, New York Times, Swiss Army, Star Wars Kid, Supreme Court, Larry Sanger, How's My Driving Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Surprise Me!
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