In the same article, he also refers to a new book coming out entitled The future of the Internet: and how to stop it by Jonathan Zittrain.
Generativity has brought us the web, instant communication, Skype, e-commerce and other wonderful things. But it has also given us spam, viruses, botnets, cyber-crime and other evils. Zittrain fears a future in which people will access a tightly controlled, over-regulated network using 'tethered' (non-programmable) appliances, such as the iPhone, which can be remotely controlled by their manufacturers.
It's a plausible, though not yet inevitable, scenario which can be avoided if we think and act intelligently. If we don't, then we will have gone from virtual utopianism to real dystopianism in a single generation. Have a good day.
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