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The Future of the Internet : And How to Stop It

By: Jonathan Zittrain

...II was quintessentially generative technology. It was a platform. It invited people to tinker with it. Hobbyists wrote programs. Businesses began to p... ...quitous Windows for Mac. Rather, they pose a fundamental dilemma: as long as people control the code that runs on their machines, they can make mistak... ... millions of subscribers. They were crushed by a network built by government researchers and computer scientists who had no CEO, no master business pl... ...system makers sometimes tried to expand their offerings into the “application space”—for example, Microsoft and Apple each developed their own versions... ... are dispersed around cities today. People could perform electronic document research over another kind of terminal found at libraries and schools. Co... ...the home page of the New York Times, he or she will see banner ads and other spaces that are filled on the fly from third-party advertising aggregators ... ...g the “hundreds of thousands of Winsock packages to universities, government organisations, businesses, and domestic users around the world”); Tattam ... ...pedia from being used for fraudulent purposes. It was created after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, when a fraudulent charity tried to take advantag... ...s, 1980–2006, 12 J. C-M C. (2007), available at http://jcmc.indiana.edu. 17. Joris Evers, Credit Card Breach Exposes 40 Million Accou...

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