The future of the Internet and how to stop it / Jonathan Zittrain.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zittrain, Jonathan (Jonathan L.), 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internet.

Internet--Social aspects.

Internet--Security measures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Future of the Internet--and how to stop it

Place of Publication:

New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 cant 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 toutedbut 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 Internetits generativity, or innovative characteris at risk.The Internets 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.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I The Rise and Stall of the Generative Net

Chapter 1: Battle of the Boxes

Chapter 2: Battle of the Networks

Chapter 3: Cybersecurity and the Generative Dilemma

Part II After the Stall

Chapter 4: The Generative Pattern

Chapter 5: Tethered Appliances, Software as Service, and Perfect Enforcement

Chapter 6: The Lessons of Wikipedia

Part III Solutions

Chapter 7: Stopping the Future of the Internet: Stability on a Generative Net

Chapter 8: Strategies for a Generative Future

Chapter 9: Meeting the Risks of Generativity: Privacy 2.0

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-328) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786612089527

9781282089525

1282089528

9780300145342

0300145349

OCLC:

923593756