Jonathan Zittrain is the George Bemis Professor of International
Law at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of
Government, Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard School of
Engineering and Applied Sciences, Director of the Harvard Law
School Library, and Co-Founder of the Berkman Klein Center for
Internet & Society. His research interests include battles for
control of digital property and content, cryptography, electronic
privacy, the roles of intermediaries within Internet architecture,
human computing, and the useful and unobtrusive deployment of
technology in education.
He performed the first large-scale tests of Internet filtering in
China and Saudi Arabia, and as part of the OpenNet Initiative
co-edited a series of studies of Internet filtering by national
governments: Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global
Internet Filtering; Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power,
Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace; and Access Contested: Security,
Identity, and Resistance in Asian Cyberspace.
He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Frontier
Foundation and the Board of Advisors for Scientific American. He
has served as a Trustee of the Internet Society, and as a Forum
Fellow of the World Economic Forum, which named him a Young Global
Leader, and as Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence at the Federal
Communications Commission, where he previously chaired the Open
Internet Advisory Committee.
0;This book is fundamental. It will define the debate about the
future of the Internet, long after we haven''t stopped it.
Absolutely required reading.1;2;Lawrence Lessig, Professor,
Stanford Law School, and author of "Free Culture" and "The Future
of Ideas"
-- Lawrence Lessig
0;A superb and alarming discussion, from one of the most astute and
forward-looking analysts of the Internet. Zittrain explains how the
glorious promise of the Internet might not be realized2;and points
the way toward reducing the current risks. Absolutely essential
reading."2;Cass Sunstein, Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service
Professor of Jurisprudence, The University of Chicago Law School,
and co-author of "Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth,
and Happiness"
-- Cass Sunstein
0;Jonathan Zittrain does what no one has before2;he eloquently and
subtly pinpoints the magic that makes Wikipedia, and the Internet
as a whole, work. The best way to save the Internet is to turn off
your laptop until you''ve read this book.1;2;Jimbo Wales, Founder,
Wikipedia
-- Jimbo Wales
0;The most compelling book ever written on why a transformative
technology''s trajectory threatens to stifle that technology''s
greatest promise for society. Zittrain offers convincing road maps
for redeeming that promise.1;2;Laurence H. Tribe, Carl M. Loeb
University Professor and Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard
Law School
-- Laurence H. Tribe
"Jonathan Zittrain does what no one has before--he eloquently and
subtly pinpoints the magic that makes Wikipedia, and the Internet
as a whole, work. The best way to save the Internet is to turn off
your laptop until you''ve read this book."--Jimbo Wales, Founder,
Wikipedia
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