• Cover Image

The Future of the Internet : And How to Stop It

By: Jonathan Zittrain

... The Future of the Internet— And How to Stop It This page intentionally left blank The Future of t... ...to Stop It This page intentionally left blank The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain Yale University Press New Haven & Lo... ...ernet And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain Yale University Press New Haven & London A Caravan book. For more information, visit www.caravanbooks.org.... ... been developed and marketed to per- form specific tasks from the first day of its sale to the last day of its use. The Apple II quickly became popular.... ...llowed to add pro- grams to the all-in-one device that Steve Jobs sells you. Its functionality is locked in, though Apple can change it through remote... ...Cs, it does not allow just anyone to write software that can run on it. Bill Gates sees the Xbox as at the center of the future digital ecosystem, rat... ...PC could hook up to the Internet in- stead of only to AOL ’s or CompuServe’s walled gardens. Proprietary informa- tion services scrambled to reorient ... ... and maybe AOL or CompuServe would have agreed to hyperlink to one another’s walled gardens. But the hints we have suggest other- wise: less-generativ... ...earch/silicon/moores paper.pdf. 24. Michael McCahill & Clive Norris, CCTV in London 6–7 (Urban Eye Project, Working Paper No. 6, 2002), available at h...

...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 ...

Read More