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Civic Technologies and the Future of the Internet
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- Description:
- Jonathan Zittrain warns how the migration to closed systems will end innovation on the Internet and facilitate unsettling new kinds of control and offers solutions for avoiding this web lockdown.
- Questions
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- Most people think the Internet is a good thing, so why try to stop it?
- You warn that the Internet, and the computers that sit on the ends of it, will become more like appliances if we aren’t careful. What do you mean by that?
- Is it possible to have it both ways: to have a secure Internet that remains open to the possibilities you describe in your book?
- Why are “tethered appliances,” such as iPods, iPhones, and TiVo’s, problematic to the future of the internet?
- What do you mean by a "web lockdown," and how long before it happens?
- How can individuals, 'netizens', help fight security problems?
- What new safeguards should we, as a society, be asking for from manufacturers & the government?
- What's the best way to allow internet freedom and creativity without risking security for private information?
- Panelists:
- Level:
- Intermediate
- Category:
- Other
- Type:
- Solo
- Event:
- SXSW Interactive 2009
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