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The Future of the Internet : And How to Stop It

By: Jonathan Zittrain

...obs had launched a revolution. Thirty years earlier, at the First West Coast Computer Faire in nearly the same spot, the twenty-one-year-old Jobs, wea... ...-one-year-old Jobs, wearing his first suit, ex- hibited the Apple II personal computer to great buzz amidst “10,000 walking, talking computer freaks.” ... ...some very good (VisiCalc), and some not so good (the inevitable and frequent computer crashes). The iPhone is the opposite. It is sterile. Rather than... ...ll and it doesn’t work anymore. These are more like iPods than they are like computers. 6 No doubt, for a significant number of us, Jobs was exactly ri... ...ppliance. For example, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 video game console is a powerful computer, but, unlike Microsoft’s Windows operating system for PCs, it do... ...ss along. In turn, that lockdown opens the door to new forms of regula- tory surveillance and control. We have some hints of what that can look like. ... ...d threatens to curtail future innovation and to facilitate invasive forms of surveillance and control. A non-generative information ecosystem advances... ...ken with the device in a number of ways: preemption, specific injunction, and surveillance. Perfect Enforcement 107 Preemption Preemption entails anti... ...al from the devices of registered sex offenders but not from others’ devices. Surveillance Tethered appliances have the capacity to relay information a...

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