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The Future of the Internet : And How to Stop It

By: Jonathan Zittrain

...an e-mail by a minute or two and no one may be the poorer; delay a stream of music too long and there is an interruption in playback. The network coul... ... to date. 43 It affected more than just connectivity: it overwrote documents, music, and multimedia files with copies of itself on users’ hard drives. I... ...l in or- der for the tool to be even minimally useful—compare a piano with a music box—but once the user has acquired some skill, the tools support a ... ...le use a generative system to produce software that allows its users to copy music and video without the publishers’ permissions, those sup- portive o... ... way that millions of dollars can go into production and marketing for a new musical recording 39 while a gifted unknown musician hums an original tun... ...ii had exposed him to airport shuttle buses called “wiki-wikis” (wiki is the Hawaiian word for “quick”). 84 Cunningham’s own wiki was successful among...

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