The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It
A Science, Nonfiction, Technology book. The first online services built on top of AT&Ts phone network were natural extensions of the 1960s IBM-model...
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 a lockdown, ending its cycle of innovation—and facilitating unsettling new kinds of control.IPods, iPhones, Xboxes, and TiVos represent the first wave of Internet-centered products that can’t be easily modified by anyone except their vendors or selected partners. These “tethered appliances” have already been used in remarkable but little-known ways: car GPS systems have been reconfigured at the demand of law enforcement to eavesdrop on the occupants at all...
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The first online services built on top of AT&Ts phone network were natural extensions of the 1960s IBM-model minicomputer usage within businesses: one centrally managed machine to which employees dumb terminals connected. Jonathan L. Zittrain, The Future of the Internet: And How to Stop It Innovation within services like CompuServe took place at the center of the network rather than at its fringes. PCs were to be only the delivery vehicles for data sent to customers, and users were not themselves expected to program or to be able to receive services from anyone other than their central service provider. CompuServe depended on the phone networks physical layer generativity to get the last mile to a subscribers house, but CompuServe as a service was not open to third-party tinkering. Jonathan L. Zittrain, The Future of the Internet: And...
6 stars. MY NEW BIBLE!Indeed, I'm not exaggerating - this book had me starstruck from page 1, mainly because I know relatively little about the internet and am beyond curious to explore its engineering. But on an intuitive level, I knew the issues and potential paths for evolution Zittrain described are a mirror of our own human situation... Here is an author that has put a ton of data and thought into his argument that the internet is doomed to fail if we all keep buying Xbox's and iPhones. To some degree he is right. There are many more "closed" systems gaining more and more market shares. Though the book was already dated with Zittrain's blasting the iPhone for not being... This book offers an intriguing perspective on the internet and digital culture. Zittrain compares generative appliances (like PCs that accept code from any source) to tethered applicances (like iPods that are completely locked down by the company and cannot be reprogrammed without illegally hacking into them)and what an impact these...
