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
*Cass Sunstein*
"A useful starting point to understanding the choices that lie
ahead."—Richard Waters, Los Angeles Times
*Los Angeles Times*
"The Future of the Internet identifies and analyzes many of the key
issues, obstacles, and tradeoffs that will define our
future."—Science
*Science*
"In the web counterrevolution that Jonathan Zittrain foresees,
users will lose the ability to control content, companies will gain
the power to censor data, and security will trump innovation. It's
a gloomy scenario that his new book Future of the Internet, says is
already underway."—Katie Baker, Newsweek
*Newsweek*
"The thrust of Zittrain's book is that the shift back toward
sterile technology cannot be entirely avoided, though the dangers
can be mitigated. . . . Ignore Zittrain's warnings and we may prove
his forecast right."—Paul Starr, The American Prospect
*The American Prospect*
"This book is a must-read for any student of technology and policy,
and its prescriptions are a must-do for the future of innovation in
the digital age."—Hal Abelson, American Scientist
*American Scientist*
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