Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It

Name: Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It
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ISBN: 9780300151244

ISBN-10: 0300151241

ISBN-13: 9780300151244

Edition: 2008

Authors: Jonathan Zittrain

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This extraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquityand 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 innovationand 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…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 3/17/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Jonathan Zittrain is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he cofounded the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and Professor of Computer Science at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He is the author of The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It.



Foreword



Preface to the Paperback Edition


Introduction



The Rise and Stall of the Generative Net



Battle of the Boxes



Battle of the Networks



Cybersecurity and the Generative Dilemma



After the Stall



The Generative Pattern



Tethered Appliances, Software as Service, and Perfect Enforcement



The Lessons of Wikipedia



Solutions



Stopping the Future of the Internet: Stability on a Generative Net



Strategies for a Generative Future



Meeting the Risks of Generativity: Privacy 2.0


Conclusion


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index