The Dynamic Internet: How Technology, Users, and Businesses are Transforming the Network

By Christopher S. Yoo

Book Overview

This is an essential and eye-opening history of the Internet and the fierce debates over how to regulate it, where AEI scholar and Penn law professor Christopher Yoo makes the case that competition, lower consumer prices, easier market entry, and greater transparency, rather than rigid government oversight, will keep the technology industry innovating and the network evolving in ways no policymaker can predict.

The Dynamic Internet: How Technology, Users, and Businesses are Changing the Network offers a comprehensive history of the Internet and efforts to regulate its use. University of Pennsylvania law professor Christopher S. Yoo contends that rather than engaging in prescriptive regulatory oversight, the government should promote competition in other ways, such as reducing costs for consumers, lowering entry barriers for new producers, and increasing transparency. These reforms would benefit consumers while permitting the industry to develop new solutions for emerging problems. It is fruitless for government to attempt to lock the burgeoning online industry into any particular architecture; rather, policymakers should act with the knowledge that no one actor can foresee how the network is likely to evolve in the future.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0844772275
• ISBN13: 9780844772271
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: AEI Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.1"
• Age Range: All ages
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher