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| The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It | 
 enlarge | Manufacturer: Yale University Press
Category: EBooks
List Price: $30.00
Buy New: $17.82
You Save: $12.18 (41%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 3749
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Dewey Decimal Number: 004.6780112
ASIN: B001B1PQO2
Publication Date: April 14, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 Interesting book but Kindle PriceTooHigh August 21, 2008
2 out of 8 found this review helpful
Mr. zittrain must have an inflated view of his worth. 18 dollars for the Kindle version is greedy and stupid.
 A boring book July 6, 2008
1 out of 9 found this review helpful
This is not a bad book, contains lots of information - but oh, so well known. I tried to keep on reading but to no avail.
 Wonderful Exposition Poor Persuasion September 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book should have either been 150 pages shorter and simply an argument or 100 pages longer with fully developed ideas. Zittrain frequently references and discusses the idea of "generativity" and changes the definition at each usage. Sometimes it means "creativity" sometimes it means "openness" and sometimes it means "freedom", while all these ideas are tied to generativity, none are categorical or clear. It seems to be a shorthand for "computer good stuff" in the same way the word "umami" or "freedom" is used with several means and a body of meanings that's poorly defined.
The book also references several seeming contradictions that I felt were poorly addressed. The opening of the book talks about the triumph of the Internet because of its openness over walled garden, then says that it's under thread by tethered services, which the Internet had initially bested.
Hacking isn't referenced for devices like DVRs, iPhones, and other such beasts.
DRM is entirely ignored as well as its failure in the music realm. I think the Sony Rootkit debacle would have served as a nice piece.
Finally, the book's title includes "and how to stop it". I don't recall much in the book that actively tells the read what to do to stop a tethered device dominated network nor what legislation should be avoided or promoted.
The center bits on generativity and how it pops up in everyday life was both informative and interesting. Maybe this book should have been broken into two parts rather than the odd mingling that took place in this text.
 Brilliant September 24, 2008
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 Not a Bedtime Story November 9, 2008
You do not want to crawl into bed with this book. A mind stimulator, it narrates the history of the Internet's making and a possible doomsday scenario in which what started out as a generative platform could become a tightly regulated one that suppresses innovation. Although projections of the future are certainly interesting, the making of the Internet and its early characteristics is a 101 for anyone who doesn't quite understand how the Internet came about. Some sections go into technical depth that can be a bit too much for an average reader to swallow, but then again, this isn't science fiction.
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