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Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It by Jonathan Zittrain (2009, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherYale University Press

ISBN-100300151241

ISBN-139780300151244

eBay Product ID (ePID)71074294

Product Key Features

Number of Pages352 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameFuture of the Internet--And How to Stop It

SubjectMedia & the Law, Internet / General, Security / Online Safety & Privacy, Social Aspects / General, Science & Technology

Publication Year2009

TypeTextbook

AuthorJonathan Zittrain

Subject AreaLaw, Computers

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Weight13.6 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

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SynopsisThe Internet is primed for a meltdown--and the most obvious cures are just as bad 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 new kinds of control. IPods, iPhones, Xboxes, and TiVos represent the first wave of Internet-centered products that can't be easily modified by anyone except their vendors or selected partners. These "tethered appliances" have already been used in remarkable but little-known ways: car GPS systems have been reconfigured at the demand of law enforcement to eavesdrop on the occupants at all times, and digital video recorders have been ordered to self-destruct thanks to a lawsuit against the manufacturer thousands of miles away. New Web 2.0 platforms like Google mash-ups and Facebook are rightly touted--but their applications can be similarly monitored and eliminated from a central source. As tethered appliances and applications eclipse the PC, the very nature of the Internet--its "generativity," or innovative character--is at risk. The Internet's current trajectory is one of lost opportunity. Its salvation, Zittrain argues, lies in the hands of its millions of users. Drawing on generative technologies like Wikipedia that have so far survived their own successes, this book shows how to develop new technologies and social structures that allow users to work creatively and collaboratively, participate in solutions, and become true "netizens."

LC Classification NumberQA76.9.C66