The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It – How Internet Innovation, Participation, and Security Conflict
Speaker: Jonathan Zittrain, Chair, Internet Governance and Regulation, Oxford University; Berkman Visiting Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies
Cost: $20.00 Club Members & Students, $25.00 Non-Members (both prices include tax and gratuity)
Hot Entrée, Dessert and Beverage will be served.
RSVP REQUIRED: 412-281-5858 or Beth Kurcina bkurcina@alleghenyhypclub.com (space is limited)
North Korean radios that receive only official stations. Cars that listen in on owners’ conversations. Digital Video Recorders that self-destruct in viewers’ homes due to court orders. How do these events reflect the Internet’s success and the resulting “future” of the Information Age? Jonathan Zittrain, a defining legal expert on the Internet, will discuss how the Generative nature of the Internet benefits Innovation and Participationbut also raises Security issues that could result in “Web Lockdown.” He will also discuss how “tethered appliances,” such as iPods, iPhones, and TiVo’s represent a dark rather than positive outcome of these trends.
Jonathan Zittrain holds the Chair in Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University and is a principal of the Oxford Internet Institute. He is also the Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Visiting Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School, where he co-founded Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. He performed the first large-scale tests of Internet filtering in China and Saudi Arabia in 2002. His book "The Future of the Internet -- And How to Stop It" was just released from Yale University Press and Penguin UK -- and under a Creative Commons license. The Lunch Lecture will be followed by a Book Signing.
Added by JulietteM on June 18, 2008