Jonathan Zittrain - Civic Technologies and the Future of the Internet

Harvard law professor and author Jonathan Zittrain discusses the unusual and distinctive technologies whose power increases in proportion to the people participating in them, contrasted with other technologies that leverage what the few can impose on the many -- whether a PC virus maker who crashes millions of machines or a law enforcement officer who can use new consumer platforms to spy far easier than before. Filmed at Singularity University, part of the November 2009 Executive Program.

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Science & Technology

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• Jonathan Zittrain
• civic technology
• Singularity University
• future
• internet

[felpaluche]

The internet is one major technological wonder that happened in the world.

[fanciswashere]

Very interesting. Thank you for the video presentation!

[lasertuber]

Great talk. I wonder if the speaker would have anything conclusive to say about the recent WikiLeaks cases.

[mrdoornbos]

Jonathan is excellent in this talk.

[goop57]

very fun video

[DavidAKZ]

The Internet has no business model? Isn't it called the taxation base via ARPANET and NSF?

[royking3rd]

RE: the Q&A discussion about legal implications of 'formal' (i.e. State, I guess) vs 'civil' technologies - i think of this as 'social contract 2.0'

[CulturalEngineer]

Civic Technology (and in the sense he means) are my focus.

The Individually-controlled/Common­s-dedicated Account... in its mechanism, implementation design, monetization and planned ownership by the Commons forms a fundamental distributed network for scaled speech and association. A network simply offered, not imposed. But whose characteristics offer and encourage adoption of an "Enlightenment" approach.

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