...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... ...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... ...ect to the exception immediately following, this book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, including illustrations, in any form (beyond that co... ...cu- mulated millions of subscribers. They were crushed by a network built by government researchers and computer scientists who had no CEO, no master ... ... much of what we love about today’s information ecosystem. Understanding its history sheds light on different possible futures and helps us to recogniz... ... debates about Internet policy. Yet increasingly the box has come to matter. History shows that the box had competitors—and today they are back. The e... ...his spare time devising a punch card system for sur- veyors to use. The U.S. government commissioned him to tally the 1890 Census with his new system,... ...services, to promote the free flow of informa- tion to societies in which the local media is censored, or to make the most effi- cient use of network res... ... laborations. Open source projects too ambitious for a single programmer or localized group of programmers to achieve alone have been made possible b...

...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 to ...