Walled gardens look rosy for Facebook, Apple -- and would-be censors
Lauren Weinstein
lauren at vortex.com
Tue Apr 17 10:56:34 PDT 2012
Battle for the Internet:
Walled gardens look rosy for Facebook, Apple - and would-be censors
http://j.mp/I3BV2B (Guardian)
Zittrain's real worry is that "the personal computer is dead". His
conclusion is a call to arms: "We need some angry nerds" - people capable
of breaking out of the walled gardens. Indeed, the US government has
found some: it has backed projects such as "the Internet in a suitcase",
which could set up a telecommunications network inside a country separate
from the existing infrastructure. Zittrain acknowledges such projects,
but for the wider world, he says, "convenience is great. I wouldn't call
for a return to the green blinking cursor of [Microsoft's pre-Windows]
MS-DOS or the [text-based] Apple II. But we should build architectures
that permit innovation and experimentation if consumers wish to go
'off-roading'."
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