Zittrain time
I’m reading The Future of the Internet in preparation for saying something about it on Apr. 11, and you should read it too. (I’ll post here whatever I decide eventually to say - right now I can say I’m enjoying it and it’s flying by.)
And here’s another plug for Zittrain-mania: Boston Review’s New Democracy Forum: Protecting the Internet Without Wrecking It, Volume 33, Issue 2, March / April 2008, is a Zittrain essay with responses from Bruce Owen, David Clark, Richard Stallman, Richard Grimes, and me. (My entry is in honor of Tom Hazlett, who wrote a great article saying that interference was more of an opportunity than a problem.)
The Zittrain Train. The Zittrain Zip. Go, JZ.
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No matter how great something may seem to be, it seems as though, because we are human, I guess, there is always going to be some flaw in it, and it will ultimately cause its own demise.
What in the world would we all do without the internet, now that we have learned to live with it in our everyday lives? We probably need to teach our kids how to use those old encyclopedias that we have on the shelf, just in case…
Not just that, but our whole lifestyle is based on it, in it and all around it… what a tragedy.
I haven’t purchased and/or read this book yet, however, it looks as though it might prove useful if I did. Thanks for the info.
Christine