Zittrain Ponders Future Of The Web
Oxford University Internet scholar Jonathan Zittrain was in Washington on Thursday to speak at Google's D.C. office (alongside Stanford Law School's Lawrence Lessig who was in town to launch his ChangeCongress movement). I was supposed to attend but had a last-minute conflict.
Zittrain's talk was based around his new book, "The Future of the Internet -- And How To Stop It." His thesis, summed up nicely by the Washington Post's Mike Musgrove, is that "the prevalence of spam and malware may be setting the Web on a path to a kind of appliance-driven lockdown."
Zittrain argues "the threat of faulty code and spyware, among other problems, means that the world is starting to turn to closed systems -- like TiVos, Xboxes and iPhones -- that can't as easily be modified by users or gifted programmers," Musgrove wrote on the Post IT blog.
Andrew Feinberg at CapitolValley.net also wrote about the book, which is sitting on my nightstand begging to be read right after I finish "Patent Failure," a timely tome by James Bessen and Michael Meurer.
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