...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... ...trations, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press), ... ... few surprises either good or bad. This made them both secure and sterile in comparison to genera- tive machines hooked up to a generative network lik... ...rity for their use, there was no way to secure them all against attack. 38 A comparison with its proprietary network and information appliance counter... ...nt in unanticipated ways. T able 4.1 lists examples of generative tools. For comparison, the table also includes some of these tools’ less generative ... ...://www.webhamster.com (last visited May 16, 2007). 55. See Ina Fried, Apple: Widget Writers Wanted, ZDN N, Dec. 9, 2004, http:// news.zdnet.com/2... ...displaying photos.... [ T ]he company wants to jump-start development of the widgets that work with Dashboard. Apple is hoping that the prospect of cr... ...gets that work with Dashboard. Apple is hoping that the prospect of creating widgets will appeal to more than just the usual crop of Apple de- veloper...

...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)...