THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET AND HOW TO STOP IT

I would like to introduce a book to you.

About
This book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity--and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path to a lockdown, ending its cycle of innovation--and facilitating unsettling new kinds of control.

Details
The writer takes an unusually and refreshingly pragmatic, realistic view of the internet, rejecting old approaches as and when needed. Onthe other hand, you can see from the first two sentences that his prose can be repetitious and dry. You have to work your way through some dense tickets to get to through this forest.

View points of the writer
The writer's central concern is a dialectical contradiction at the heart the Internet:

1. The Internet's success comes from its remarkable ability to repeatedly generate new and unexpected uses.
2. This "generativity" (yuck, what a clumsy word), comes in turn from the deliberate dumbness of the Internet protocols themselves; they were deliberately designed to permit any kind of traffic, for any purpose, to pass between end points of the network.
3. But the more the Internet becomes "prime time", the more it attracts spammers, virus writers and information thieves to prey on the online population, and the Internet's dumbness is free for them to use as well.
4. The more these highway predators threaten our online experience, the more we seek to retreat to the safety of a closed and protected world.
5. A closed and protected world may give us safety, but will spell the end of the Internet as a fount of innovation.

Reference:http://whimsley.typepad.com/whimsley/2009/02/review-the-future-of-the-internet-and-how-to-stop-it-by-jonathan-zittrain.html

http://futureoftheinternet.org/

My feeling of this book:
With the development of the Internet, not everything is good. The development of the internet also means to the decline of some other field, such as the paper industry of newspaper, novel,ect. But this does not mean that it is no good for the development of the internet, the internet will be developed and should be developed. To stop the decline of some other industry, I think we should creat new elements in such industry rather than prevent the dexelopment.