...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... ...ernet And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain Yale University Press New Haven & London A Caravan book. For more information, visit www.caravanbooks.org.... ...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... ...about them soon gave way as businesses could Battle of the Boxes 15 rely on college graduates having skills in word processing and other basic PC too... ...an any of the pro- prietary networks. Most of the Internet’s architects were academics, amateurs like T om Jennings in the sense that they undertook t... ...suaded most of the interested parties. The motto among them was, “We reject: kings, presidents, and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and run- ni... ...thing for the Internet to work the way it was designed when de- ployed among academics whose raison d’être was to build functioning net- works. But th... ...n the wake of popular legislative attempts to revoke land claims); Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 17 U.S. 518 (1819) (protect- ing the pre–Revolutiona... ...e U.S. Patent No. 6,368,227 (issued Apr. 9, 2002). 70. See Posting of Adrian Kingsley-Hughes to Gear for Geeks, Ballmer: Linux “Infringes our intellec...

...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)...