The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It

The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It


The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It
by Jonathan Zittrain | English | 2009 | ISBN-10: 0300151241 | 351 Pages | PDF | 5.5 MB

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



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