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.
"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."-Lawrence Lessig, Professor, Stanford
Law School, and author of Free Culture and The Future of
Ideas -- Lawrence Lessig
"This remarkably researched and highly entertaining book is a must-read for all who take the ubiquitous nature of the Internet in our everyday lives for granted. The future of the internet is NOT a positive one, unless we all work collaboratively to ensure its lasting success. Zittrain's analysis is first-class and should be widely heeded by leaders from all sectors of society."-Dr. Klaus Schwab, Executive Chairman and Founder of the World Economic Forum
-- Dr. Klaus Schwab"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."-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
-- Jimbo Wales"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 realized-and points the way toward reducing the current risks. Absolutely essential reading."-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
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