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...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... ...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... ... stop it / Jonathan Zittrain. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-300-12487-3 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Internet. 2. In... ...Battle of the Networks—19 3 Cybersecurity and the Generative Dilemma—36 Part II After the Stall—63 4 The Generative Pattern—67 5 T ethered Appliances,... ...f Generativity: Privacy 2.0—200 Conclusion—235 Acknowledgments—247 Notes—249 Index—329 Contents vi The Future of the Internet— And How to Stop It Th... ...ntroduced the first killer application for the Apple II in 1979—VisiCalc, the world’s first spreadsheet program—sales of the ungainly but very cool mach... ... off dramatically. 3 An Apple running VisiCalc helped to convince a skeptical world that there was a place for the PC at every- one’s desk and hence a ... ...n time to de- velop effective countermeasures and best practices. Rather, the war is being lost across the board. Operating system developers struggle ... ...s and benefit from one another’s activities. Benkler, on the other hand, sees war between the amateur authors empowered by generative systems and the i...

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............................................................... 4 THE HERO AS DIVINITY. ODIN. PAGANISM: SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY. .............. 4 LECTURE II. THE HERO AS PROPHET. MAHOMET: ISLAM............................................... 38 LECTURE III. THE HERO AS POET. DANTE: SHAKSPEARE. .............................................. 68 LECTURE IV. THE HERO AS PRIEST. LUT...

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...Table of Contents: A Scandal in Bohemia, 1 -- I, 1 -- II, 9 -- III, 18 -- The Red-headed League, 21 -- A Case of Identity, 41 -- The Boscombe Valley Mystery, 56 -- The Five Orange Pips, 77 -- The Man with the Twisted Lip, 93 -- The...

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... 2001 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. Based on issues of The Strand July 1891 through June 1892. ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Contents... ... . 1 I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ... Red headed League . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 A Case of Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4... .... He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed himself in a false ... ... Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you.” “Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor,” murmured Holmes without opening his eyes. For many year... ... chair from which he had half risen. “I really wouldn’t miss your case for the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you will excus... ...the way, is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you consult my index, in Andover in ’77, and there was something of the sort at The Ha... ...r in Florida, where he was reported to have done very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson’s army, and afterwards under Hood, where he ro... ...d note books bearing upon my uncle’s life in America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had done his duty well and had borne the re...