Singularity University Blog | Jonathan Zittrain – Civic technologies and the future of the internet

December 1, 2009

Singularity University Blog — Dec 1, 2009 | Singularity University staff

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IObnMYG5sD0

Harvard law professor and author Jonathan Zittrain discusses the unusual and distinctive technologies whose power increases in proportion to the people participating in them, contrasted with other technologies that leverage what the few can impose on the many — whether a PC virus maker who crashes millions of machines or a law enforcement officer who can use new consumer platforms to spy far easier than before. Filmed at Singularity University, part of the November 2009 Executive Program.