February 13th, 2012 | by zittrain | published in Future of the Internet | 3 Comments
A British insurance company called Motaquote has teamed up with TomTom, the GPS manufacturer to offer insurance prices based on data gathered by GPS. Fair Pay Insurance, Motaquote’s new program, is an opt-in insurance pricing scheme where drivers will get a free GPS unit in return for potentially lower (but possibly higher) premiums. The GPS […]
January 27th, 2012 | by kalbert | published in Future of the Internet | 8 Comments
This semester, we’re starting an exciting new class, aimed not at lawyers, but undergraduate CS students here at Harvard. It’s called CS42: Controlling Cyberspace – and we’re sharing the syllabus online. Anything big we’re missing?
January 27th, 2012 | by kalbert | published in Future of the Internet | 1 Comment
Computers Gone Wild: Impact and Implications of Developments in Artificial Intelligence on Society was an informal discussion that took place at Harvard Law School on December 8th, 2011. Hosted by Jonathan Zittrain, Marin Soljačić and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, we brought together eighteen mostly local guests to discuss the ways that AI is changing […]
December 14th, 2011 | by kalbert | published in Future of the Internet | Comments Off on Microsoft Echoes Apple App Store Requirements
Here at Future of the Internet, we’ve already talked a little bit about Apple’s content requirements for both the iOS and Mac App Stores in JZ’s The PC is Dead post. As JZ said, “Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Mark Fiore found his iPhone app rejected because it contained “content that ridicules public figures.” Fiore was well-known enough […]
December 7th, 2011 | by zittrain | published in Future of the Internet | 3 Comments
Last week several members of Congress — Senators Wyden, Cantwell, Moran, and Paul, and Reps. Issa, Lofgren and Chaffetz — floated a proposal to substitute for the contentious proposed Stop Online Piracy Act, previously discussed here. Sen. Wyden’s office has commented on the compromise, and TechDirt has a writeup and a copy of the document […]
December 2nd, 2011 | by zittrain | published in Future of the Internet | 4 Comments
A Close Look at SOPA Jonathan Zittrain, Kendra Albert and Alicia Solow-Niederman This document is a guide to the Stop Online Piracy Act as proposed in the United States House of Representatives. Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), H.R. 3261, 112th Cong. (2011). It represents our notes as we sought to understand exactly what it does and […]
November 30th, 2011 | by zittrain | published in Future of the Internet, Generativity | 32 Comments
From Technology Review: The Personal Computer Is Dead Power is fast shifting from end users and software developers to operating system vendors. By Jonathan Zittrain The PC is dead. Rising numbers of mobile, lightweight, cloud-centric devices don’t merely represent a change in form factor. Rather, we’re seeing an unprecedented shift of power from end users […]
November 29th, 2011 | by kalbert | published in Future of the Internet | 8 Comments
Update on 2/23/2011: Apple has pushed back its deadline for OSX sandboxing to June 1st, 2012. The deadline was originally November, 2011, but was pushed to March 1st in early November. Although Apple claimed that this change was to give developers time to integrate new permissions from an update, it does follow the announcement of […]
August 15th, 2011 | by zittrain | published in Future of the Internet | Comments Off on An interview with John Batelle on The Future of the Internet
John Battelle asked me a few Qs about my thinking on the themes in The Future of the Internet in the three years since the book came out (four since it was drafted!). John’s review is available on his blog, and I’ve reproduce the core of it here: JBAT: – You wrote the Future of […]
June 6th, 2011 | by jennifer | published in Android, censorship, cybersecurity, filtering, Future of the Internet, Generativity, iphone, privacy | Comments Off on FOI Topics and Links of the Week
IR-transmitted metadata. Last week, Apple filed for a patent on an iOS camera that can detect infrared in addition to visible light. If a user aims the camera at an object that is sending out additional information about that object in the IR band, the camera transmits that information to the device, and potentially also […]
