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    The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It - Jonathan Zittrain, Author and Harvard Professor

    Presented by Commonwealth Club at Palo Alto Art Center

    November 4, 2009

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    The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It - Jonathan Zittrain, Author and Harvard Professor
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    Networks connect people as well as devices, and when they are cheap and easy to use, intellectual tasks can be broken out and performed elsewhere by other people. We are in the initial stages of distributed human thinking that can be directed at mental tasks the same way that surplus remote server rackspace accommodate spikes in Internet traffic. Jonathan Zittrain is a Professor of Law at Harvard University and the author of The Future of the...

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    Networks connect people as well as devices, and when they are cheap and easy to use, intellectual tasks can be broken out and performed elsewhere by other people. We are in the initial stages of distributed human thinking that can be directed at mental tasks the same way that surplus remote server rackspace accommodate spikes in Internet traffic.

    Jonathan Zittrain is a Professor of Law at Harvard University and the author of The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It. Zittrain discusses the prospects and issues for this future in which human computing is ubiquitous and nearly any mental act can be bought and sold.


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    Palo Alto Art Center

    1313 Newell Road
    Palo Alto, CA 94303

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    Tickets:
    $20 $12 for members

    Times:
    6:30pm Check in
    7pm Program
    8pm Book signing

    Phone: 1-800-847-7730

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    A free lot and street parking are available.


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