The Future of the Internet: And how to stop it
24th Apr 2008; 19:00
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With Jonathan Zittrain, Chair in Internet Governance and Regulation at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford and a Principal of the Oxford Internet Institute.
Chair: Becky Hogge, Executive Director, Open Rights Group
The Internet is primed for a meltdown-and the most obvious cures are just as bad. The engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path to a lockdown, ending its cycle of innovation - and facilitating unsettling new kinds of control.
With support from AOL
Watch Jonathan Zittrain on RSA Vision.
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