Comments on: What’s wrong with my iPhone? http://futureoftheinternet.org/whats-wrong-with-my-iphone Jonathan Zittrain is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:25:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Andrew Martin http://futureoftheinternet.org/whats-wrong-with-my-iphone/comment-page-1#comment-95 Andrew Martin Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:53:19 +0000 http://futureoftheinternet.org/?p=27#comment-95 But you are assuming that the "tethered" will drive out the "generative". As we acquire more and more devices, it seems much more likely that we will retain a mix of both: though the proportion will surely shift. I love my very non-generative slingbox, even though I could have achieved a similar result with my home PC. The deciding factors in that balance were, for me, related to power consumption and security. On the other hand, the slingbox illustrates beautifully that the internet remains a great place for innovation. Indeed, as networking components are now incredibly cheap, and sensor networks and ah hoc wireless change the landscape of what's "on" the internet anyway, we might even see a fresh explosion of hobby electronics, creating new kinds of (single purpose) networked device. If the future depends on "responsible" consumers, then we are lost. Happily, many technologies are coming down the track which will help liberate users from having to know more than is healthy about IT security, without necessarily locking them in to a particular view of the future. Technology will save us :-). But you are assuming that the “tethered” will drive out the “generative”. As we acquire more and more devices, it seems much more likely that we will retain a mix of both: though the proportion will surely shift.

I love my very non-generative slingbox, even though I could have achieved a similar result with my home PC. The deciding factors in that balance were, for me, related to power consumption and security. On the other hand, the slingbox illustrates beautifully that the internet remains a great place for innovation. Indeed, as networking components are now incredibly cheap, and sensor networks and ah hoc wireless change the landscape of what’s “on” the internet anyway, we might even see a fresh explosion of hobby electronics, creating new kinds of (single purpose) networked device.

If the future depends on “responsible” consumers, then we are lost. Happily, many technologies are coming down the track which will help liberate users from having to know more than is healthy about IT security, without necessarily locking them in to a particular view of the future. Technology will save us :-) .

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