The Future of the Internet
March 26, 2008 at 11:00 am by ChrisJeremiah Owyang posted this morning a question, whether the reader was a "corporatist" or a "purist" in regard to the corporate impact of social media. There is a nice discussion in response to this in his comments section which you can read or participate in here. 
In my comment, I mentioned the book, The Future of the Internet, which takes a big picture view of the internet as it matures due to the impact of trends like social media, and technological developments (here's a more in-depth review of the book). Zittrain considers whether the trajectory will be shaped more by tethered appliances rather than the generative approach of its first decade. Since I tend toward pessimism when it comes to technology's role in society in general (yeah, I just said that), my sense is that we are headed toward a more lock-down oriented phase (corporatist) of the internet, though I'll be happy to be proven wrong. What do you think? |
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