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The Future of the Internet : And How to Stop It

By: Jonathan Zittrain

...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... ... & 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 ... ...ntroduced the first killer application for the Apple II in 1979—VisiCalc, the world’s first spreadsheet program—sales of the ungainly but very cool mach... ... off dramatically. 3 An Apple running VisiCalc helped to convince a skeptical world that there was a place for the PC at every- one’s desk and hence a ... ...ussell Johnson, Elena Kagan, Ken Kahn, Samuel Klein, Alex MacGillivray, John Martin, Betsy Masiello, Lew McCreary, Andrew McLaughlin, Juliette Melton,... ...scribing some problems with expansive copyright protections). 48. See, e.g., Dean F. Andal, Read My E-Mail, No New Taxes!, C-T D., Apr. 1997, av... ... widespread media coverage of the article.”). 44. See, e.g., Wikipedia, User:MartinBot, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MartinBot (as of May 30, 200... ...a/celeb/story.html?id 10261eb6-0469-4198-a16a- 1f302275b2a9 (describing the Comedy Central show host’s mocking of the Star Wars Kid); Video: White & ...

...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 ...

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