The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It

by Jonathan L. Zittrain

Book Overview

The Internet is primed for a meltdown--and the most obvious cures are just as bad

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.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300151241
• ISBN13: 9780300151244
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"