The future of the Internet : and how to stop it

This extraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity-and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zittrain, Jonathan
Format: eBook Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven Yale University Press 2008
Edition:1
Subjects:
Communication and technology
Information and communication technologies
Innovation
Internet
Internet > Security measures
Internet > Social aspects
Security
Security measures
Social aspects
Social structure
Technological change
ISBN:9780300124873, 0300124872, 9780300145342, 0300145349
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part I The Rise and Stall of the Generative Net -- Chapter 1: Battle of the Boxes -- Chapter 2: Battle of the Networks -- Chapter 3: Cybersecurity and the Generative Dilemma -- Part II After the Stall -- Chapter 4: The Generative Pattern -- Chapter 5: Tethered Appliances, Software as Service, and Perfect Enforcement -- Chapter 6: The Lessons of Wikipedia -- Part III Solutions -- Chapter 7: Stopping the Future of the Internet: Stability on a Generative Net -- Chapter 8: Strategies for a Generative Future -- Chapter 9: Meeting the Risks of Generativity: Privacy 2.0 -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index