Comments on: Zittrain’s Pessimistic Predictions and Problematic Prescriptions for the Net

By: The Internet, “Openness” & Commercialization

The Internet, “Openness” & Commercialization — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 21:25:18 +0000

[...] “open” than it is today. After all, as Geert Lovink reminded us in his 2008 critique of Jonathan Zittrain’s thinking about the decline of online openness: [In] [t]he first decades[,] the Internet was a closed world, [...]

By: Oh Farts! The Droid, the iPhone & the Lessig-Zittrain Thesis — Technology Liberation Front

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:12:11 +0000

[...] Little-ism and hyper techno-pessimism. (See my many battles with Zittrain [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 + video] and my 2-part debate with Lessig earlier this [...]

By: The Progress & Freedom Foundation Blog

The Progress & Freedom Foundation Blog — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:13:20 +0000

You'd Have to Be Smoking Dope to Believe the Zittrain-Lessig Thesis...

Over the past couple of years here, I have relentlessly hammered Harvard's dynamic duo of digital doom, Jonathan Zittrain (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) and Lawrence Lessig (see 1, 2, 3), for their extraordinarily gloomy predictions about the......

By: You’d Have to Be Smoking Dope to Believe the Zittrain-Lessig Thesis — Technology Liberation Front

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:49:25 +0000

[...] hammered Harvard’s dynamic duo of digital doom, Jonathan Zittrain (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) and Lawrence Lessig (see 1, 2, 3), for their extraordinarily gloomy predictions about the [...]

By: Slate’s Manjoo on Apple iPhone Regulation

Slate’s Manjoo on Apple iPhone Regulation — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:52:08 +0000

[...] misguided in light of the potential unitended consequences in might yield. It’s an argument I very much agree with, of course. Anyway, Manjoo responds: Radia’s argument isn’t crazy. Just [...]

By: A Response to Jonathan Zittrain in The New York Times | The Technology Liberation Front

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:52:53 +0000

[...] op-ed in The New York Times last Monday about online privacy and open platforms (which Adam thoroughly refuted last week) I have a letter to the editor in today’s The New York Times: To the [...]

By: Adam Thierer

Adam Thierer — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:36:50 +0000

Here's a solid response to the Zittrain piece from James Watters over at siliconANGLE. He argues:

Innovation will be alive and well because the fundamental technologies at the core of cloud computing are designed for massive, vibrant, explosive, awesome, and amazing application innovation. There will always be a big place in the market for companies who achieve design simplicity by limiting what can be done on their platforms—Apple and Facebook may march to massive market share by this principle—but as long as the technologies underpinning the network are open, programmable, extensible, modular, and dynamic as they are and will be, innovation is in good hands.

By: t

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:05:06 +0000

William McGeveran comments on Zittrain's piece here: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2009/07/20...

By: Adam Thierer

Adam Thierer — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:36:50 +0000

Here's a solid response to the Zittrain piece from James Watters over at siliconANGLE. He argues:

Innovation will be alive and well because the fundamental technologies at the core of cloud computing are designed for massive, vibrant, explosive, awesome, and amazing application innovation. There will always be a big place in the market for companies who achieve design simplicity by limiting what can be done on their platforms—Apple and Facebook may march to massive market share by this principle—but as long as the technologies underpinning the network are open, programmable, extensible, modular, and dynamic as they are and will be, innovation is in good hands.

By: Adam Thierer

Adam Thierer — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:36:50 +0000

Here's a solid response to the Zittrain piece from James Watters over at siliconANGLE. He argues:

Innovation will be alive and well because the fundamental technologies at the core of cloud computing are designed for massive, vibrant, explosive, awesome, and amazing application innovation. There will always be a big place in the market for companies who achieve design simplicity by limiting what can be done on their platforms—Apple and Facebook may march to massive market share by this principle—but as long as the technologies underpinning the network are open, programmable, extensible, modular, and dynamic as they are and will be, innovation is in good hands.

By: Info/Law » Zittrain Warns of the Cloud

Info/Law » Zittrain Warns of the Cloud — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:44:23 +0000

[...] [UPDATE: Adam Thierer does not care for this op-ed azt all, and has some interesting responses.] [...]

By: InfoBore 19 « ubiwar . conflict in n dimensions

InfoBore 19 « ubiwar . conflict in n dimensions — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:03:50 +0000

[...] Zittrain’s Pessimistic Predictions and Problematic Prescriptions for the Net – Adam Thierer, Technology Liberation Front [...]

By: t

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:05:06 +0000

William McGeveran comments on Zittrain's piece here: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2009/07/20...