The Future of the Internet
by Jonathan Zittrain
Publisher: Yale University Press 2008
ISBN/ASIN: 0300124872
ISBN-13: 9780300124873
Number of pages: 351
Description:
The Internet’s current trajectory is one of lost opportunity. Its salvation, Zittrain argues, lies in the hands of its millions of users. Drawing on generative technologies like Wikipedia that have so far survived their own successes, this book shows how to develop new technologies and social structures that allow users to work creatively and collaboratively, participate in solutions, and become true "netizens".
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