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The Future of the Internet : And How to Stop It

By: Jonathan Zittrain

...re of the Internet— And How to Stop It This page intentionally left blank The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain Yale Uni... ...ternet— And How to Stop It This page intentionally left blank The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain Yale University Pres... ... & London A Caravan book. For more information, visit www.caravanbooks.org. The cover was designed by Ivo van der Ent, based on his winning entry of ... ...s.org. The cover was designed by Ivo van der Ent, based on his winning entry of an open competition at www.worth1000.com. Copyright © 2008 by Jonathan... ...n Adobe Garamond type by The Composing Room of Michigan, Inc. Printed in the United States of America by R. R. Donnelley, Harrisonburg, Virginia. Libr... ...- sis, and the lease covered everything—hardware, software, maintenance, and training. 4 Businesses developed little in-house talent for operating the... ...4 By one credible estimate, there will be over 290 million PCs in use in the United States by 2010 and 2 bil- lion PCs in use worldwide by 2011. 75 In... ...not very readily absorbed. Many technologies require apprenticeships, formal training, or many hours of practice if one is to become conversant in the... ... N25 (describing the music industry’s at- tempt to “take aim at the pirates’ ships” by flooding file-sharing sites with thousands of decoy files with nam...

...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 ...

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