Macworld | How the iPhone is killing the ‘Net:
Is the iPhone killing the ’Net? That’s the question posed by Oxford University Professor Jonathan Zittrain in his new book, The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It .
Zittrain is a bona fide member of the digiterati—a cyberlaw scholar with multiple degrees from Yale and Harvard. He is the Professor of Internet Government and Regulation at Oxford University and co-founder of Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society.
Bottom line; tethered and locked in devices like the iPhone and initiatives like Web 2.0 will make the Internet into a middling content provider, with everyone running their apps in the browser instead of in installed software. It’s an interesting theory, and I will make time to read the book. Not to flog a dead horse, but I think the Internet in some ways is like the old west; and we are rapidly approaching the time when the outlaws are going to have to move to greener pastures and let the women’s guild collect the funds to build the new school house, hire a preacher and elect a mayor. In other words, for the Internet to work, for everybody, it is going to have to adapt to the way normal people, not nerds, conduct their lives.
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