DISQUS

Technology Liberation Front: another review of Zittrain’s “Future of the Internet”

  • Tim Lee · 1 year ago
    Good review. Personally, I think Patent Failure is the most important tech policy book of the year.
  • Seth Finkelstein · 1 year ago
    Again, JZ does not need me to defend him, but ... Yes, your critique is unfair. It's knocking down a strawman.

    "Zittrain, however, implies that these devices are force-feeding the masses only those services or information that a handful of corporate overlords deem worthy of mass consumption."

    "But what Zittrain does in The Future of the Internet is generalize his personal preferences to the whole of cyber-society. What’s good for the ivory-tower digerati may not be what the rest of us want or need."

    Bah. That's just by-the-numbers Libertarian ranting, where one hits a certain number of sneers and knee-jerks.

    This is not an endorsement of Zittrain's book, which I have my own thoughts about.