Harvard smart-guy and a Facebook friend Jonathan Zittrain gets a guest slot on The Colbert Report to plug his new book, The Future of the Internet and How To Stop It [you can download the book, for free with certain conditions, right here], and, among other things, uses the metaphor of a mosh pit to explain how "a guy named Jon, a guy named Vint [another Facebook friend, I might add...], and a guy named Steve" (Jonathan probably also meant to mention Len and he certainly wouldn't have wanted to leave out Bob but he definitely wouldn't have mentioned Al) invented a way to move data from this side of the network to that side of the network.... Drawing on generative technologies like Wikipedia that have so far survived their own successes, [Zittrain's] book shows how to develop new technologies and social structures that allow users to work creatively and collaboratively, participate in solutions, and become true “netizens.”
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