"The crucial legacy of the personal computer is……" — Jonathan Zittrain
"The crucial legacy of the personal computer is that anyone can write code for it and give or sell that code to you - and the vendors of the PC and its operating system have no more to say about it than your phone company does about which answering machine you decide to buy."
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34 Quotes by Jonathan Zittrain
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If what you are getting online is for free, you are not the customer, you are the product.
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Generativity is a system's capacity to produce unanticipated change through unfiltered contributions from broad and varied audiences.
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Search engines generally treat personal names as search terms like any others: Data is data.
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I think social networking is absolutely here to stay. Now, whether or not the label will Facebook forever, depends in…
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When I worry about privacy, I worry about peer-to-peer invasion of privacy. About the fact that anytime anything of any…
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The increasing legal pressure against archives has created anxieties among researchers, librarians, and journalists. They cite the need to protect…
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