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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Walled gardens look rosy for Facebook,
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Tue Apr 17 14:27:23 2012
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:58:46 -0700
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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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