...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... ...First West Coast Computer Faire in nearly the same spot, the twenty-one-year-old Jobs, wearing his first suit, ex- hibited the Apple II personal comput... ...ation appliances so much as they are becoming them. The trend is starting in schools, libraries, cyber cafés, and offices, where the users of PCs are no... ...lly left blank 1 Battle of the Boxes 11 Herman Hollerith was a twenty-year-old engineer when he helped to compile the results of the 1880 U.S. Censu... ...ronic document research over another kind of terminal found at libraries and schools. Computers, then, are only one piece of a mosaic that can be more... ...rious alteration of vital personal records hosted at medical offices, schools, town halls, and other data repositories that cannot afford a full-time IT ... ... the possibility of an emergence of a new popular culture, pro- duced on the folk-culture model and inhabited actively, rather than passively con- sum... ... Benkler sees market-based models of cultural production as at odds with the folk-culture model, and he much prefers the latter: from “the perspective...

...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)...