...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... ...ners. The owners’ interests in maintaining stable computing environments are naturally aligned with technologies that tame the wildness of the Interne... ...ns is increasing. That value is derived from stealing people’s attention, PC processing cycles, network bandwidth, or online preferences. And the fact... ...the current portfolio of tradeoffs is no longer optimal, and that some of the natural adjustments in that balance, while predictable, are also undesira... ...comprising fixed hardware and flexible software soon proved its worth: PC word processing software could be upgraded or replaced with better, competing ... ...w appear to employ former U.S. cybersecurity czar Richard Clarke’s evocative language of a “digital Pearl Harbor,” 86 experts are increasingly aware o... ...nsporting them from one place to another), a piece of paper (hosting written language, wrapping fish), or an alphabet (con- structing words). Our world... ...ag-digital.com/vonmag/200603/?pg 66 (suggesting that the red-green divide I outline in this book will be exploited by “control-freak incumbents” seek...

...xtraordinary 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. (futureoftheinternet.org)...