• Home
  • About
  • Blog (ARCHIVE)
  • News (ARCHIVE)
  • Events
  • Media
  • Video
  • Glossary
  • Contact
  • Download
  • RSS

Download

This site has been archived and will not be updated further.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 ...

Blog Archives

 

@michaelbd Just going to leave this here (before it vanishes) theatlantic.com/technology/ar…

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

@simonw @BioTurboNick True in both directions! twitter.com/ChrisBettles1/…

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

@PeterContiBrown You have always been, as Yiddish would have it, a mensch. <3

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

@davidfrum The answer to which branch the VP is in (which is probably “yes”) shouldn’t affect former VP Pence’s stance on the subpoena. Any immunities are privileges, not duties. Given what happened (and his affirmation of same), and the importance to country, he should voluntarily testify.

Last week from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

@paulg Imagine this phenomenon applied to legal reasoning: AI might predict what a judge would say and even write the appellate opinion. But then does the law stop developing in 2023? Do we have a pool of human judges to apply contemporary standards and create new training data?

Last week from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter Web App

Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Jonathan Zittrain unless otherwise noted.
Powered by WordPress using Gridline Lite.
Protected by Akismet • Blog with WordPress