...ternet— And How to Stop It This page intentionally left blank The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain Yale University Pres... ...ge intentionally left blank The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain Yale University Press New Haven & London A Caravan boo... ...s.org. The cover was designed by Ivo van der Ent, based on his winning entry of an open competition at www.worth1000.com. Copyright © 2008 by Jonathan... ...the Generative Net 14 The business world took up PCs slowly—who could blame companies for ignoring something called “personal computer”? In the early... ...In such a world, people would use smart typewriters for word processing from companies like Brother: all-in-one units with integrated screens and prin... ...d by representatives of the National Science Foundation, the Depart- ment of Defense, and other agencies that had helped fund the Internet’s devel- op... ...ment sponsors. 16 The most tangible result from the government inquiry was a Defense Department–funded program at Carnegie Mellon University called CE... ...hy the Digital Copyright System of American Law Professors’ Dreams Failed in Japan, 79 U. C. L. R. (forthcoming 2008), available at http://ssrn.c... ...t http://ssrn.com/abstract 1010246 (noting that a digital recording tax in Japan similar to the proposals made by Fisher and others failed to produc...

...xtraordinary 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 to a lockdown, ending its cycle of innovation?and facilitating unsettling new kinds of control. (futureoftheinternet.org)...