...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), ... ...an e-mail by a minute or two and no one may be the poorer; delay a stream of music too long and there is an interruption in playback. The network coul... ...r the production of useful things like Web browsers, auction sites, and free encyclopedias, but also because they can allow an extraordinary number of... ... to date. 43 It affected more than just connectivity: it overwrote documents, music, and multimedia files with copies of itself on users’ hard drives. I... ...l in or- der for the tool to be even minimally useful—compare a piano with a music box—but once the user has acquired some skill, the tools support a ...

...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)...