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The Future of the Internet : And How to Stop It

By: Jonathan Zittrain

...rt II After the Stall—63 4 The Generative Pattern—67 5 T ethered Appliances, Software as Service, and Perfect Enforcement—101 6 The Lessons of Wikipe... ... to program the machines themselves, but true beginners simply could load up software written and then shared or sold by their more skilled or inspire... ...inker with it. Hobbyists wrote programs. Businesses began to plan on selling software. Jobs (and Apple) had no clue how the machine would be used. The... ...vate for the Apple II, only Apple would innovate for the iPhone. (A promised software development kit may allow others to program the iPhone with Appl... ... the Web and Web sites, online shopping, peer-to-peer networking, wikis, and blogs. The hostility of AT&T toward companies like Hush-A-Phone and of th... ...ny of the online tools that have taken off in recent years, such as wikis and blogs, are quite rudimentary both in their features and in the sophistica... ...s and in the sophistication of their underlying code. The power of wikis and blogs comes from the fact that noth- ing quite like them existed before, ... ...and writers to prepare and cus- tomize chronological accounts of their work—“blogs” 79 —and the pervasive- ness of online search software has made the... ...“blogs” 79 —and the pervasive- ness of online search software has made these blogs accessible to millions of people who do not seek them out by name b...

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