...re of the Internet— And How to Stop It This page intentionally left blank The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain Yale Uni... ...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... ... & London A Caravan book. For more information, visit www.caravanbooks.org. The cover was designed by Ivo van der Ent, based on his winning entry of ... ...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... ... than selling, controlling the ongoing computing processes of his clients in order to ensure a desirable out- come. It worked. His clients did not wan... ...g between discrete tasks, and it reduces the skill set a programmer needs in order to write new soft- ware. 13 It also lays the groundwork for the eas... ...ad recorded attempts to send 229,468 distinct messages to 3,360,181 would-be recipients. 58 (The re- searcher’s computer pretended to deliver on the s... ...formation appliance like the TiVo, and classical, profit-maximizing firms like Red Hat and IBM can find it worthwhile to contribute to generative technol... ...tion from senders and routing certain attributes of this informa- tion on to recipients). 5. See, e.g., Granma’s Rules of POLA, http://www.skyhunter.c...

...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 ...