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This site has been archived and will not be updated further. Jonathan Zittrain’s new personal website is accessible at https://blogs.harvard.edu/jzwrites/

Jonathan Zittrain, The Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It

— The book is available to download under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 license: Download PDF.

— The book can be viewed in an experimental html format courtesy of Yale University Press and the futureofthebook.org people. (The format is experimental; html is probably safely thought of as in full production as this point.) Each paragraph can be annotated: Visit html site.

— Tony Curzon Price at OpenDemocracy is leading a group annotation of the book at Diigo.

— Improbulus has created a PRC e-book version for PDAs.

— Amazon has enabled search-inside-the-book: Visit Amazon version.

— Google Books

Future of the Internet Blog

  • A novel way of defending against mass uses of our data
    • AI is getting better at performing mass categorization of photos and text. A developer can scrape a bunch of photos from, say, Facebook -- either directly, likely violating the terms of service, or through offering an app by which people ...
  • Should the director of OPM be fired over its massive data breach?
    • I participate in a regular poll by the Christian Science Monitor on Internet policy topics.  This week's question was about the recent data breaches at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management: As you can see, most people said yes.  I count myself ...

Blog Archives

 

Here’s Wiki’s account of the analog hole and attempts to close it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_… These Dalek-like noise jamming devices seem more performance art than mass market useful, but it’s good fodder for thinking through where the power to record should lie in public spaces.

About 2 days ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

Reminiscent of movie and TV companies’ efforts 20 years ago to “close the analog hole,” putting dog whistles in copyrighted broadcasts so they couldn’t be recorded. What didn’t work so well for property can be tried for privacy, since sound is sound and bits are bits. twitter.com/nytimes/status…

About 2 days ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

That would be Kurt Waldheim, at the time Secretary-General of the United Nations. @ale_potenza's account: theverge.com/2017/10/1/1638…

About 3 days ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter Web App

It bears a 12" gold-plated record containing universal greetings from Earth, assembled by a distinguished committee led by Carl Sagan. The first hello an alien civilization will encounter is that of ... a Nazi soldier (and likely war criminal). ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/golden-r… pic.twitter.com/ms6Yr6SMQP

About 3 days ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter Web App

Today is the thirtieth anniversary of Voyager's photo of Earth 6 billion km away as a "pale blue dot," before it shut down its camera forever. It's now more than 20 billion km away, the first object from humankind to enter interstellar space. youtu.be/hKFkR9yfRoY

About 3 days ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter Web App

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