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

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Of possible interest...

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Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 18:52:49 -0700
From: Neda Beheshti <nbehesht () stanford edu>
To: netseminar () lists stanford edu

Stanford Networking Seminar Announcement
http://netseminar.stanford.edu/

Title:    The Future of the Internet -- And How to Stop It
Speaker:  Jonathan Zittrain,
          Oxford University/Stanford

When:     12:15 PM, Thursday October 18th, 2007
Where:    Room 101, Packard Building

Abstract:

The Internet we know and love at risk even as its freedoms are at a  
high water
mark and rising.  It's the changing slope of the curve that counts.
Regulators and some business types (e.g., incumbents) have interest  
in being
able to intervene more readily; they've been stymied since the 1990's  
because
the Net has produced too many golden eggs to be worth shutting it  
down.  The
deciding vote is the "consumer" vote, and they want their MTV.   
Unfortunately
that vote is itself shifting, in part because of the uncontrolled  
environment
represented by Net and PC: too much spyware, too many viruses, too  
little
reliability for the applications they want to use.  Waiting in the  
wings is a
new generation of "information appliances" that in the past have been
laughable (think WebTV) but now are killer: iPod, XBox, TiVo, most  
mobile
phones, Zune, PSP. These appliances, and a general appliancization of  
the PC
itself, represent a very different environment: the immutability of an
appliance to the consumer and third parties (think television set),  
coupled
with use of the latest Net innovations to make the thing eminently  
alterable
by (and only by) its maker and licensees. This talk maps out the bad
implications of an appliancized -- and Web 2.0 -- world, and offers
suggestions to temper it.

Speaker's Bio:

Jonathan Zittrain holds the Chair in Internet Governance and  
Regulation at
Oxford University and is a principal of the Oxford Internet  
Institute. His
research interests include battles for control of digital property and
content, cryptography, electronic privacy, the roles of  
intermediaries within
Internet architecture, and the useful and unobtrusive deployment of  
technology
in education. He has recently co-authored Access Denied, a study of  
Internet
filtering by national governments, and his book, The Future of the  
Internet --
And How to Stop It, will be released by Yale University Press and  
Penguin UK
this winter.
*Education*: Harvard Law School, J.D. 1995; Harvard University John  
F. Kennedy
School of Government, M.P.A. 1995; Yale University, B.S. Cognitive  
Science and
Artificial Intelligence 1991.


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