The future of the Internet and how to stop it / Jonathan Zittrain.
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TextPublisher: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: vi, 342 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0300124872
- 9780300124873
- Future of the Internet--and how to stop it [Spine title]
- 025.042 23
- TK5105.875.I57 Z53 2008
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-328) and index.
Pt. I. The rise and stall of the generative Net -- 1. Battle of the boxes -- 2. Battle of the networks -- 3. Cybersecurity and the generative dilemma -- Pt. II. After the stall -- 4. The generative pattern -- 5. Tethered appliances, software as service, and perfect enforcement -- 6. The lessons of Wikipedia -- Pt. III. Solutions -- 7. Stopping the future of the Internet : stability on a generative Net -- 8. Strategies for a generative future -- 9. Meeting the risks of generativity : Privacy 2.0.
The author pieces together the engine that has catapulted the Internet ecosystem into the prominence it has today, offers an accessible discussion of the problems of an "appliancized" future, and provides a set of solutions to help stop it.
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