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This site has been archived and will not be updated further. Jonathan Zittrain’s new personal website is accessible at https://blogs.harvard.edu/jzwrites/

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.

— Improbulus has created a PRC e-book version for PDAs.

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

— Google Books

Future of the Internet Blog

  • A novel way of defending against mass uses of our data
    • AI is getting better at performing mass categorization of photos and text. A developer can scrape a bunch of photos from, say, Facebook -- either directly, likely violating the terms of service, or through offering an app by which people ...
  • Should the director of OPM be fired over its massive data breach?
    • I participate in a regular poll by the Christian Science Monitor on Internet policy topics.  This week's question was about the recent data breaches at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management: As you can see, most people said yes.  I count myself ...

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@RosemaryMosco @AnomalousMuffin Pop open a bottle of XP Chardonnay?

About 4 hours ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

@NCPtarmigan @JulieOwono @Harvard_Law @ZoeDarme @evelyndouek Well, a plan that contemplates funding 40 board members at $200K+ per year could fund a few advocates without materially changing the scope. I think the Q may more be around how much an adversarial process is thought to be core to the project.

About 2 days ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

@NCPtarmigan @JulieOwono @Harvard_Law @ZoeDarme @evelyndouek I’m all for more expertise, but of course in traditional litigation expert witnesses can be a big part of the cost and complication. The fact that these decisions are meant to have precedential effect vastly magnifies the stakes of a “case” - and for me militates toward lawyers.

About 2 days ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

@JulieOwono @Harvard_Law @ZoeDarme @evelyndouek Thanks very much for a fascinating session. It’s rare to see a project this unusual make it to the starting line. pic.twitter.com/mL2utDBTcx

About 2 days ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

Here’s Wiki’s account of the analog hole and attempts to close it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_… These Dalek-like noise jamming devices seem more performance art than mass market useful, but it’s good fodder for thinking through where the power to record should lie in public spaces.

About 5 days ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

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