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The Future of the Internet—And How to Stop It » Chapter 2: Battle of the Networks

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:28:10 -0000

Highlights and Sticky Notes:

somehow

Everyone - even the appliance - needs a network - tony curzon price

one another.

But imagine the cost and inconvenience of every appliance having its own network ... so the ability of th enetwork to re-purpose itself is also important to diffusion of technology. - tony curzon price

connect to it.

Network architectures and protocols work in an environment in which certain behaviors are assumed ... and new assumptions on behavior lead to new desires for network configuration; trustworthiness is an important such behavioral dimension. - tony curzon price

networking

Regulation, not jsut technology, made it hard to make the telephone network useful for anything apart from telephoning. - tony curzon price

Hush-A-Phone, which was invented in 1921 as a way to have a conversation without others nearby overhearing it

were sold.

ATT had control of network adn devices attached to it - tony curzon price

The court drolly noted, “[AT&T does] not challenge the subscriber’s right to seek privacy. They say only that he should achieve it by cupping his hand between the transmitter and his mouth and speaking in a low voice into this makeshift muffler

small ways.

Courts forced ATT to accept non-ATT devices on phone system - tony curzon price

phone network.

Court principle in 1940s: "as long as network is not harmed, 3rd parties can hook up to it". - tony curzon price

The physical layer had become generative, and this generativity meant that additional types of activity in higher layers were made possible.

services business

The modem on the "open" ATT network was first generative opportunity for hobbyists and businesses - tony curzon price

THE PROPRIETARY NETWORK MODEL

themselves

Firt online services were along IBM model but consumer-facing; one company supplied the lot. - tony curzon price

unchanged

In 10 years of business, between 1984 & 2004, Compuserve hardly changed its array of offerings. - tony curzon price

tinkering

Compuserve piggy-backed on ATT network, phy layer generativity, but did ot itself offer 3rd party acces for generativity. - tony curzon price

Why would the proprietary services not harness the potential generativity of their offerings by making their own servers more open to third-party coding?

model prevailed.

Information service companies were charging by the minute - so why didn't they want to cultivate 3rd party apps? - tony curzon price

shopping

Probably no one actually saw the commercial potential. - tony curzon price

free-for-all

By early 90s, a small umber of networks offered slightly differentiated, closed, monolithic services. - tony curzon price

who built them.

The answer is probably deep in organisational behavior: mature markets encourage exploitation of niches, not radical exploration of new models. - tony curzon price

possible.

Hobbyist BBS encouraged the opposite incentive of proprietary netowrk: bandwidth limitation meant that users had to be as quick as possible. - tony curzon price

Jennings’s work

FIDOnet - the original p2p file sharing system - got over some of the bandwidth limitations. - tony curzon price

annoyed person.

FIDOnet was a great kludge, but had some real issues - like wrong numbers in the call list ... and irate humans at the end of them. - tony curzon price

the world

FIDOnet problems were exactly the problems that ATT worried about when it wanted to limit 3rd party appliances on the network - who was to blame for quality of service. - tony curzon price

FIDOnet

Internet offered flexibility of FIDOnet with robustness of proprietary network. - tony curzon price

services

PC <--> Internet analogy: Internet connects to proprietary networks and eventually replaces them - tony curzon price

message

From the first, Internet is designed to pass information along diverse computer platforms by defining protocols. - tony curzon price

points

Internet was low level: allow 2 nodes to exchange information ... and that is all; no prejudgement of what people want to do with that information. - tony curzon price

billion

Internet builders were academics who could devote time to the project and yet were doing it for the innate interest; $10m or so spent on Internet between 1969 and 1990 --- great return on investment, from a social point of view. - tony curzon price

from them.

Environment of creation is critical in determining the nature of the system: Internet pioneers were trying to get the most out of existing infrastructure and diverse netwroks; contrast business logic of FedEx network. - tony curzon price

network work.

The motto among Internet pioneers was, “We reject: kings, presidents, and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and running code;” they were building it for themselves, in a sort of Kantian environment of universalisability of the user. - tony curzon price

controlling it.

1991, backbone privatisation context also allowed for decentralisation of network ownership and operation. - tony curzon price

tryout period

Internet -> Windows PC link built by a single academic hobbyist - tony curzon price

access

1991, first opening of Internet to non-research uses; by mid 90s, proprietary networks were branding mainly as ISPs --- generative boom was gathering unbelievable speed. - tony curzon price

code for it.

Internet was built away from commercial logic, no trying to guess what the conusmer wanted; just like the hobbyist PC. - tony curzon price

rust that at least some third-party software writers will write good and useful code, and trust that users of the device will be able to access and sort out the good and useful code from the bad

harmful code.

Basic trade-off: consistency, quality and reliability of service (closed systems) versus breadth of uses, trust of open systems. - tony curzon price

approach

Intenret design choices made sense given a sociology, not just an negineering environment. - tony curzon price

Its origins can be found in a 1984 paper by Internet architects David Clark, David Reed, and Jerry Saltzer.

requirements

Procrastination principle: 1984 Internet engineer academics formuilate argument that only universally useful features should be built into the network, with other specific work being done at the end-points. - tony curzon price

The people using this network of networks and configuring its endpoints had to be trusted to be more or less competent and pure enough at heart that they would not intentionally or negligently disrupt the network.

persists today.

Internet design assumed basic trustworthiness and competence. - tony curzon price

Yet the assumption that network participants can be trusted, and indeed that they will be participants rather than customers, infuses the Internet’s design at nearly every level.

an outsider.

Banks are built for robbers, airports for terrorists ... the Internet was built for colleagues. - tony curzon price

the IDs.

AOL/CompServe had identity management built-in: wanted to know who you were for marketing purposes ... good for accountability, too. - tony curzon price

User identification is left to individual Internet users and servers to sort out if they wish to demand credentials of some kind from those with whom they communicate.

contents

On Internet, identity-management was left to specific service providers or apps to choose. - tony curzon price

regulation

There's good and bad in internet's anonymity -- can't pursue bad behavers, but can't get the freedom fighters against oppressive governments either -- but an engineering decision has ended up havign huge social impacts. - tony curzon price

The person at the endpoint must instead rely on falling dominos of trust. The Internet is thus known as a “best efforts” network, sometimes rephrased as “Send it and pray” or “Every packet an adventure.”

Internet as "network of networks" loosely cobbled together entails the inability to develop quality of service, or bandwidth agreements, that apply between any 2 points. - tony curzon price

chapter

"bit egalitarianism" is assumed in the network, and fixes have been found along the way (eg Akamai & network caching). - tony curzon price

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The Future of the Internet—And How to Stop It » Chapter 1: Battle of the Boxes

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:56:43 -0000

Highlights and Sticky Notes:

went wrong.

The first computer company, Tabulating Machine Company, (1890) leased machines and operated them for clients (gvt, big business) and offered a service, not a piece of equipment. - tony curzon price

from scratch

TMC becmae IBM and retained the model; the downside was that innovation was negotiated and slow, and new vendors found it very hard to enter the market. - tony curzon price

purposes

The threat of anti-trust forced IBM to unbundle, allowing third party and in-house software in ... but large firms mainly maintained the old model nevetheless. - tony curzon price

Cutting and pasting different pieces of Flexowriter tape together allowed the user to do mail merges about as easily as one can do them today with Microsoft Word or its rivals.

reprogram them.

'60s corporate comp[uting was IBM or single purpose appliances - tony curzon price

problems

PCs come out of a hobbyist branch, not a corporate branch---they were "solutions waiting for problems". - tony curzon price

tabulators

Watch and calculator are the consumer equivalent of the information appliance --- and at heart this has got to do with having someone to blame when it doesn't work. - tony curzon price

springy posts.

invent entirely new appliances from scratch as long as they had the ideas and the patience to attach lots of wires to springy posts.

Actually, this product rarely encouraged developing new products from scratch. While it was possible to do with difficulty, by that skill level it would be much easier to use a protoboard and discrete components. Any level of structural control will limit the user to some degree from the freedom to create. This is actually a very good example, and a survey of the various products and their creative possibilities would make for an interesting way to explore this question of flexibility and generativity. - Peter Zelchenko

revolution

PCs were always expected to run s/w written by authors other than the manufacturer ... but the PC, until the early 80s, was still considered a hobbyist toy. - tony curzon price

But PCs were still firmly grounded in the realm of hobbyists, alongside 75-in-1 Project Kit designs.

The fundamental threshold difference was the ease of transporting functionality with the floppy drive. This gave the Apple II a first opportunity to allow this kind of conspiring. Other platforms (Imsai, Altair, Compucolor, etc.) all had, or eventually supported, floppy drives, and there was some conspiracy, but the Apple's was the most plug-and-play of them all. - Peter Zelchenko

a university

Corporate computing moved to the mini-computer - still a dumb-terminal system that ran entreprise specific tasks and some general buisness functions. - tony curzon price

no more.

Un-networked, hobbyist nature of PC made it particularly lax about security. - tony curzon price

opponent

The PC started winning through its killer business apps - wordprocessor, spreadsheet and relational database, while the hobbyist uses led to the development of games. - tony curzon price

or the Web.

Business adopted the PC for cost reasons, despite its basic unsuitability to group work; homes bought the PC for one thing and discovered many things they could do with it. - tony curzon price

PCs can run.

Microsoft genuinely wanted an open PC running many companies' code, not a s/w monopoly for itself. - tony curzon price

installed

A vast network of PCs ready to run new s/w offered a market for new s/w, a market that only grew as the Internet eliminated the cost of the transaction. - tony curzon price

themselves

The core of Apple's and MS's business was in making attractive Operating Systems rather than in creating applications themselves, pace the MS antitrust cases of the 1990s that were precisely about such moves. - tony curzon price

Radio Shack’s “75-in-1 Electronic Project Kit,”

Abraham's new Lego-style electronic project kit is much more "controlled" than my old Radio Shack one -- and he will get less out of it, though it may be easier and more satisfying in some ways, he won't understand discrete components. Compare Ted Kilpin's e-mail about PIC controllers. - Peter Zelchenko

parties’ code

The backwater of hobbyist computing environemnt was essential to the experimentation & risk-taking that made the PC. - tony curzon price

by others

But the PC revolution went beyond the tinkerers to the non-technical user because of the ease with which PC h/w can be re-used for other purposes. - tony curzon price

supremacy there.

Here is the typical pattern: creative amateur chaos -> successful product -> market take-over -> risk to interests from original chaos --> temptation to lock it all down. - tony curzon price

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The Future of the Internet—And How to Stop It » Chapter 5: Tethered Appliances, Software as Service, and Perfect Enforcement

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:48:41 -0000

Highlights and Sticky Notes:

even the safest Volvo can be driven into a wall.

Too much power in the hands of bad users means it is tempting to tether and undermine the generative economy - tony curzon price

the appliances.

a more tethered internet is a more regulable internet - tony curzon price

a network.

TiVo v. EchoStar and PlayMedia v. AOL show how tethering increases the powers of regulators - tony curzon price

A change in technology can change the power dynamic between those who promulgate the law and those who are subject to it.

Technology transforms all sides of the power equation - tony curzon price

normal surfing.

china's simple ways of censoring -- add bumps - tony curzon price

Comprehensive regulatory crackdowns require a non-generative endpoint or influence over the individual using it to ensure that the endpoint is not repurposed.

real regul crackdown not possible with the generative end-point - tony curzon price

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by: tony curzon price

The Future of the Internet—And How to Stop It » Chapter 7: Stopping the Future of the Internet: Stability on a Generative Net

Thu, 29 May 2008 22:16:28 -0000

Highlights and Sticky Notes:

bad code

End-to-end neutrality should give way to "generativity test": control the network where it does least harm to generativity. - tony curzon price

generative system.

Abandon the strict notions of middle and end-points once we take a "generativity maximising" view of policy (NB - this is like moving from a rights-based view to a utilitarian one .. no wonder JZ like the pragmatism of JS Mill) - tony curzon price

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The Future of the Internet—And How to Stop It » Chapter 4: The Generative Pattern

Thu, 01 May 2008 06:58:23 -0000

stallmans 4 freedoms

Comments:

stallmans 4 freedoms - tony curzon price

Highlights and Sticky Notes:

three layers.

The Network = physical layer + protocol layer + content layer - Renata Avila

hierarchies

Network layer separation is a condition of polyarchy --- "ordered independence". - tony curzon price

principle at work

IP protocol is the "Natural Monopoly" in the system --- that AND NO MORE - tony curzon price

Generativity is a system’s capacity to produce unanticipated change through unfiltered contributions from broad and varied audiences.

JZ defines generativity:
Generativity is a system’s capacity to produce unanticipated change through unfiltered contributions from broad and varied audiences.
and says open, free and communal don't quite capture it. - tony curzon price

consumers

Generativity requires unfiltered inputs and unexpected outputs; this requires contributors and participants, not just consumers to animate the system. - tony curzon price

f code.

Conditions of generativity:
1. Leverage, meaning that it makes hard work easier.
(sounds like the opposite would not be much use in any context...) This might also be called a productivity advantage - it increase output per relevant unit input. - tony curzon price

specialized

Conditions of Generativity: adaptability-
Can the same equipment be put to new, un-anticipated tasks? Plastic, AC electricity, PC

((How does a musical instrument do here? Does just one thing - produce notes -- but in an infinite variety)) - tony curzon price

training

Conditions of Generativity: Ease of mastery.

Many code masters got there without formal training. They allow a certain level of use (lik cars) that falls short of mastery. - tony curzon price

accessible

Accessibility - the easier it is to get mass adoption, the more likely to become generative. - tony curzon price

generative

Transferability - or viral nature (/?) -- is it easy for copies to propagate? - tony curzon price

frequently generativity at one layer is the best recipe for generativity at the layer above.

Frequent link btwn generative tools and generative systems - a question of culture? - tony curzon price

generates

Accessibility of Free Software is key to its viral generativity - tony curzon price

Free software satisfies Richard Stallman’s benchmark “four freedoms”: freedom to run the program, freedom to study how it works, freedom to change it, and freedom to share the results with the public at large

generative

Generativity is different from Stallman's 4 freedoms: Windows is generative, but not free to examine or distribute; and Linux in TiVo is free but not (technically) accessible. - tony curzon price

platform

Subjective affordance maps the possibility space of an object -- greater affordance probably implies greater generativity ... but not if it leads to over-functionalism. - tony curzon price

detail

Is there a public good aspect to generative systems? - tony curzon price

Generative systems facilitate change.

For good and ill - tony curzon price

breakthrough

The non-generative encourages change that is conceived of by the single controlling orgnaisation of change - tony curzon price

compete

Generativity and disruptive change ... generativity helps with the process of creative destruction. - tony curzon price

market model.

Generativity gives the amateur a chance - tony curzon price

initial spark

The venture capital model, the amateur, the long tail and generativity all come together - VC picks up once a generative experiment has hit a big seam. - tony curzon price

They represent tinkering done by that one person in a hundred or a thousand who is so immersed in an activity or pursuit that improving it would make a big difference—a person who is prepared to experiment with a level of persistence that calls to mind the Roadrunner’s nemesis, Wile E. Coyote.

The type case of the use-innovator -- like Auden's: "caveman who first forgot his supper". - tony curzon price

The genius behind such innovations is truly inspiration rather than perspiration, a bit of tinkering with a crazy idea rather than a carefully planned and executed invention responding to clear market demand.

In the young internet, innovations like wikis are inspirational, low effort, out of the blue innovations; lots of bang for buck. - tony curzon price

Web service

Generative systems can accommodate many models of production - market, amateur etc - tony curzon price

Generativity, then, is a parent of invention, and an open network connecting generative devices makes the fruits of invention easy to share if the inventor is so inclined.

Generativity as a medium of invention - it makes me think of a market place - 2nd Century Palmyra, say - as opposed to a market or a trade. - tony curzon price

He then noted the innate value of being able to express oneself idiosyncratically

We are seeing the possibility of an emergence of a new popular culture, produced on the folk-culture model and inhabited actively, rather than passively consumed by the masses.

makers

Benkler: particpation and transparency potential of new networks changes us deeply as cultural co-creators. - tony curzon price

policy issues

Benkler, contd: free culture makes us citizens, market cutlure makes us consumers. - tony curzon price

innovation

An economy of "sharing nicely" has created great wealth and internet allows it to increase in scope. - tony curzon price

The divide is not between technology and nontechnology, but between hierarchy and polyarchy.⁷² In hierarchies, gatekeepers control the allocation of attention and resources to an idea. In polyarchies, many ideas can be pursued independently. Hierarchical systems appear better at nipping dead-end ideas in the bud, but they do so at the expense of crazy ideas that just might work. Polyarchies can result in wasted energy and effort, but they are better at ferreting out and developing obscure, transformative ideas. More importantly, they allow many more people to have a hand at contributing to the system, regardless of the quality of the contribution.

Polyarchy is ... what allows parallel, uncoordinated action to nevertheless produced orderly wholes - tony curzon price

contribution

Hierarchy and Polyarchy - who forages better? (is this intrinsic or extrinsic)? - tony curzon price

eccentric

Intrinsic bebefits are not just there for the technically enclined - there is recursion in generativity, allow all sorts of activities to become generative. - tony curzon price

Internet

Internetworled PC makes group coordination much simpler than it used to be. - tony curzon price

disruption

Generativity encourages mutations - tony curzon price

economic harm.

How much harmful mutation are we prepared to put up with from Internet - especially social harm? - tony curzon price

But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal impulses and preferences.

The generative Internet and PC were at first perhaps more akin to new societies; as people were connected, they may not have had firm expectations about the basics of the interaction. Who pays for what? Who shares what? The time during which the Internet remained an academic backwater, and the PC was a hobbyist’s tool, helped situate each within the norms of Benkler’s parallel economy of sharing nicely, of greater control in the hands of users and commensurate trust that they would not abuse it.

This is the generative pattern, and we can find examples of it at every layer of the network hourglass:

123

An idea originates in a backwater.
It is ambitious but incomplete. It is partially implemented and released anyway, embracing the ethos of the procrastination principle.
Contribution is welcomed from all corners, resulting in an influx of usage.
Success is achieved beyond any expectation, and a higher profile draws even more usage.
Success is cut short: “There goes the neighborhood” as newer users are not conversant with the idea of experimentation and contribution, and other users are prepared to exploit the openness of the system to undesirable ends.
There is movement toward enclosure to prevent the problems that arise from the system’s very popularity.

The general cycle of generativity, at every level. (NB How does the market avoid these? what is the role of free-riding and externalities?) - tony curzon price

surfing

Spam and malware are like Mill's notion of individuality having got too far ahead of the collective power to discipline it. - tony curzon price

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by: tony curzon price

The Future of the Internet—And How to Stop It » Part II: After the Stall

Mon, 26 May 2008 16:47:08 -0000

Highlights and Sticky Notes:

technical layer.

the general story of open success that contains the seed of its closing; Wikipedia is as much at risk as the PC and Internet. - tony curzon price

layers

Generative is delicate, it is not self-sustaining; and ignoring that by enthusiasts will endanger it more. - tony curzon price

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The Future of the Internet—And How to Stop It » Chapter 3: Cybersecurity and the Generative Dilemma

Sun, 04 May 2008 12:20:13 -0000

Highlights and Sticky Notes:

computer

Nov 2nd 1988 - First Internet Worm launched from Princeton ... just looked through directories on a machine for addresses to send itself to and do the same... Internet almost crawls to a halt. - tony curzon price

count

digital nose count.

Morris' code contained a bug that made it proliferate - the intent had been the harmelss one to count machines on network. - tony curzon price

from afar.

worm shows danger of generativity: ease of reprogramming could be dangerous. - tony curzon price

and less-skilled users.

Situation is worse today than in 1988 - network bigger and faster, processors more powerful and users less skilled. - tony curzon price

threats

Public reaction to worm: other Interent engineers thought it was a challenge; govt set up an enquiry and a program at Carnegie that still today is a clearing-house for info on network security, viruses, etc. - tony curzon price

at MIT

Fairy story ending to the fate of Morris, the first worm-maker, dot com millionaire, and now tenured professor at MIT. - tony curzon price

Internet

The Internet Engineering Task Force, the de facto UNIX gods of the Internet, published a report ("The Helminthiasis of the Internet" :) describing the technology of the worm, and recommending some ethics training for new comers on the Net. .. - tony curzon price

retool them.

Naivety of Internet's response has to be understood in relation to logic of computer architectures. - tony curzon price

Urging users to patch their systems and asking hackers to behave more maturely might, in retrospect, seem naïve.

operations

Original ATT crack at 2600Hz : ATT, because it controlled a centralised network, could change the architecture to close-down the backdoor. - tony curzon price

enforced

Compuserve similarly adopted post Cap'n Crunch rule: "do not let the paths that carry data also carry code." - tony curzon price

Internet

the networks evolved slowly and with few surprises either good or bad. This made them both secure and sterile - tony curzon price

the Internet.

Security = slow to change, sterile - tony curzon price

responsibility

1988 internet had no ways to control spread of morris worm - tony curzon price

attack

endpoint machines were disparate and open - no single way to secure them against morris attack - tony curzon price

the Internet.

Insecurity of Internet - allowing code to be run on end-poitns, eg, - is critical to its creative potential - tony curzon price

considered

Post Morris, no one really offered to solve the problem, because there was no non-transforming solution ,,, - tony curzon price

The decentralized, nonproprietary ownership of the Internet and the computers it linked made it difficult to implement any structural revisions to the way it functioned, and, more important, it was simply not clear what curative changes could be made that did not entail drastic, wholesale, purpose-altering changes to the very fabric of the Internet.

Then it stalls.

generative is good: great products, and also great opportunities for self-expression. - tony curzon price

generativity

generative systems require trust; trust gets abused; if it is abused enough, people choose security over generativity. - tony curzon price

password security.

Remarkable scalability of Internet, especially given new demographic of users in 1990s - tony curzon price

a set time.

hacker non-malevolence has slowed the issue of bad code from getting out of hand. - tony curzon price

syndicates

graffiti vs. drugs trade - where is the pay-off to bad code ... we can now see one - tony curzon price

happening

organised crime apparently controls 1 in 10 home pcs through botnets. - tony curzon price

money

spam, ddos ($50k per day), gaming passwords, private infrmation -- all are biz model for malware - tony curzon price

orbit

malware has become very sophisticated, with recovery essentially impossible against the worst infections - tony curzon price

Internet

generativity is put at risk - either from death by 1000 cuts, or by watershed security moment. - tony curzon price

globe

Wipe the world's drives - the watershed scenario. - tony curzon price

starts

Badware subterfuge examples - tony curzon price

compromised

Badware or not is subjective, in the eye of the installer - see VNC - tony curzon price

appliancized

Frustrated consumers, their machines getting infected and mis-performing, will go for appliances - tony curzon price

decisions

consumers will increasingly to use the XBOX that works over the PC that crashes. - tony curzon price

device

appliances clip the wings of invention - tony curzon price

the fore

Vital function of PC is to keep the appliance honest - it is general purpose, and so can be reconfigured into the appliance; but this insurance policy is not WHY the PC is bought, it is unintended social benefit. - tony curzon price

gatekeeper

PCs that are shared are getting appliantised by various restrictions. - tony curzon price

f the user is allowed to make exceptions, the user can and will make the wrong exceptions, and the security restrictions will too often serve only to limit the deployment of legitimate software that has not been approved by the right gatekeepers.

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by: tony curzon price

The Future of the Internet—And How to Stop It » Introduction

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:12:18 -0000

Highlights and Sticky Notes:

to the Web.

iPhone is object of desire - tony curzon price

of its use.

The original PC is a blank slate. - tony curzon price
Apple II is a user object; iPhone is a consumer object (open / closed) - Yule Heibel

very fast.

Apple II was a generative box whose success depended on others' additions to it, like VisiCalc - tony curzon price

computer crashes

Apple II was open for tinkerers and hobbyists, unlike the iPhone - tony curzon price

permission

iPhone needs Apple permission before you can tinker; Apple can remote modify it; it is a controlled system. - tony curzon price
ahah ! - sterile the iphone ?... not so... it has now many app. done free, as the next widgetbox web2 ways - and it is a very great inspiration too, an industrial asian has produced a similar product better...and of course as usual, protections attract hackers to modify or to use free: it's done... - Ako Z°om

give up that freedom.

The dark side of openness - viruses, spam, crashes - makes the closed philosophy of the iPhone attractive to consumers. - tony curzon price
generative creativity = dangerous; closed consumption = "safe" - Yule Heibel
This is a very important tension to consider, and one that will take time to work through. - Jeremy Price

network of control

iPhone / Apple II story is representative of the Internet: it is moving form the open to the tethered, the generative to the controlled. - tony curzon price

things

Boxed appliances are fine, but they endanger the NEXT ROUND of innovation --- innovation-types they themselves were dependent on in the past. - tony curzon price
If the generative aspect is ursurped by closed appliances, the ecosystem dies as a productive source of further innovation - Yule Heibel

discover

When there is separation of PC ownership and use, interests diverge: stability versus "wilderness" - tony curzon price

heartbeat

As long as a PC can run code it is given, and especially with broadband connectivity, the dangers are there, and are serious. - tony curzon price
like a natural ecosystem, open and generative platforms can provide habitat for dangerous pathogens (viruses, invaders, etc.) - Yule Heibel

exported

These dangers add support for lockdown and interference by the surveiling centre --- with all the dangers this implies in authoritarian states. - tony curzon price
lockdowns as monoculture... safe, but sterile - Yule Heibel

groups with shared norms and a sense of public purpose

or private

Lockdowns and box-appliances will destroy the creativity of IT, and to stop this happening we'll need new technologies, communities that sustain the right ethos and a sense of public purpose. - tony curzon price

pressure them

The everlasting battle will be between open, Web 2.0 systems and services and "bottled power" as exemplified by the iPhone. - tony curzon price
- users (vs. consumers?) stay in the generative loop via Web 2.0 applications - Yule Heibel
free services and ...ware = battle for money may change to battle for communities influences and direct human exchanges - Ako Z°om

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by: Ako Z°om

The Future of the Internet—And How to Stop It » Chapter 9: Meeting the Risks of Generativity: Privacy 2.0

Thu, 01 May 2008 16:09:50 -0000

Highlights and Sticky Notes:

complex social phenomenon

Institutional info + info by amateurs + transclusion = Privacy concerns, associated data might be unusual or unwanted - Renata Avila

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Digest updated on oD

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:09:39 -0000

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OK, I now have a reasonably clean feed through on the oD site for the Digest:
http://www.opendemocracy.net/aggregator/sources/11

This is a good place to read the notes we're making - they're ordered the right way and don't have extraneous information.

Tony - tony curzon price

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How you can join in group annotation

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:06:43 -0000

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Hi,

Here are my thoughts at end day 1 of the experiment of how we can get this annotation done:

1. if you have a moment to devote to the Digest project, go to the group bookmark page to see where we have got to in the annotation process:
http://groups.diigo.com/o_d-digest-_-future-of-the-internet-annotation/bookmark
Click on the top bookmark link, which will take you to the page of the JZ book that is being annotated

2. read the digest notes up to that time to understand where the argument is (best is by using the Diigo "Comment" view that you get to by clicking the Comment button on the toolbar

3. once you get to an un-annotated paragraph, add your note...

This way, the next person will take up where you've left off.

I realise this requires the notes to be quite good - so that you can really get a sense of the argument by reading the notes. If you can no longer follow the argument at some point, click on the note in question to have it take you to the text. Add a better note if you think a better one is needed.

Hope this works, and please keep the suggestions coming on how we can make the process useful.

I'm still working on styling a page on oD where we can read the Digest. And keep the commentary coming on the other group.

Best, Tony - tony curzon price

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The Future of the Internet—And How to Stop It » Part I: The Rise and Stall of the Generative Net

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:01:22 -0000

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subscribers

Victory of decentralised Internet not obvious in 1990s versus the centralised behemoths - tony curzon price

become

Ingredients of success: quiet growth out of limelight, to avoid being shut down for being too risky - tony curzon price

to win.

Battle of Internet vs. AOL/Compuserve/Prodigy is like batlte of PC vs. Appliance; what makes the former win? - tony curzon price

dead ends.

Openness of PC and Internet are setting the scene for a counter-revolution; we need to look at history to find inspiration for avoiding lock-down. - tony curzon price

access it.

NB - Don't forget that the end-poitn device is integral part of Net (for the user) - tony curzon price

the box has come to matter.

Internet

If the tethered box wins, then heavy regulation will be possible and we will lose the amateur innovation that has delivered so much of the Net - tony curzon price

stop them

Net won against the centralised systems BECAUSE it assumed users would behave well, indeed contribute positive goodwill, even when bad behaviour was technically possible - tony curzon price

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First experiments - Introduction digested

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:37:03 -0000

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OK, here are the results of my day 1 reading:
http://groups.diigo.com/o_d-digest-_-future-of-the-internet-annotation/bookmark

You'll see there is 1 bookmark with "26 Expand" on the right.

Click the "expand" button, and read the yellow-rimmed boxes. That is my digest of the Introduction.

Alternatively, go to
http://yupnet.org/zittrain/archives/6
and click on the "Comments" button in your diigo toolbar.

You can read the body of the comments just scrolling down the column in your right hand browser pane.

I'll try to work up some sparser views of all this to put on the oD site.

Tony - tony curzon price

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