Zittrain Video from the Tribeca Grand, NYC

If you missed Jonathan Zittrain's event in New York two Friday's ago, you can watch the video here. Zittrain is the author of The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It, a book that gives the dark back-story to a tale we already know well. Everyone understands that the Internet's mind-blowing expansion in the last two decades has forever changed not only how people find information but also how we live. What we do not hear about is that the freedom of communication that we came by so suddenly is slowly disintegrating. The "tethered appliances" that allow us to use the Internet, like iPhones and TiVos, prevent us from using other companies' technologies and appliances along with their own products. Monitoring by companies like Google consciously chips away at the freedom to choose where and how we receive information. Internet users can stop the impending regulated future of information technology. We have to work together creatively to maintain the freedoms we have come to enjoy.