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Jonathan Zittrain, The Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It

– The book is available to download under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 license: Download PDF.

– The book can be viewed in an experimental html format courtesy of Yale University Press and the futureofthebook.org people. (The format is experimental; html is probably safely thought of as in full production as this point.) Each paragraph can be annotated: Visit html site.

– Tony Curzon Price at OpenDemocracy is leading a group annotation of the book at Diigo.

– Amazon has enabled search-inside-the-book: Visit Amazon version.

– Still working on Google Books version.

Jonathan Zittrain is the Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University, and co-founder of Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

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Future of the Internet Blog

Dichotomies and markets

Adam Thierer has posted a thoughtful review of the Future of the Internet. He picks up on something that others have mentioned that I don’t realize I appear to suggest: that my distinction between sterile and generative technologies appears to be too much of a dichotomy, and that I think that only generative technologies are good ones.
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Macs get viruses too

A lot of my recent work concerns how vulnerable the Internet is to bad code — in particular, how easily the generative PCs hooked up to it can find themselves reprogrammed for worse, in a heartbeat, either by drive-by downloads that sneak onto the machine or by code that the user affirmatively (but foolishly) asks to install.
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