The Next Digital Decade: Essays On the Future of the Internet

by Berin Szoka (Editor), Adam Marcus (Editor)

Overview

Published by TechFreedom, a new technology policy think tank, this unique book brings together 26 thought leaders on Internet law, philosophy, policy and economics to consider, from a wide variety of perspectives, what the next digital decade might bring for the Internet. This book is essential reading for anyone gazing toward the digital future.

The book's 31 essays address questions such as: Has the Internet been good for our culture? Is the Internet at risk from the drive to build more secure, but less "open" systems and devices? Is the Internet really so "exceptional?" Has it fundamentally changed economics? Who--and what ideas--will govern the Net in 2020? Should online intermediaries like access providers, hosting providers, search engines and social networks do more to "police" their networks, increase transparency, or operate "neutrally?" What future is there for privacy online? Can online free speech be regulated? Can it really unseat tyrants?

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013098398
Publisher:	TechFreedom
Publication date:	08/12/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	576
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Berin Szoka is founder of TechFreedom, a non-profit think tank dedicated to unleashing the progress of technology that improves the human condition and expands individual capacity to choose. Previously, he was a Senior Fellow and the Director of the Center for Internet Freedom at The Progress & Freedom Foundation. Before joining PFF, he was an Associate in the Communications Practice Group at Latham & Watkins LLP, where he advised clients on regulations affecting the Internet and telecommunications industries. Before joining Latham's Communications Practice Group, Szoka practiced at Lawler Metzger Milkman & Keeney, LLC, a boutique telecommunications law firm in Washington, and clerked for the Hon. H. Dale Cook, Senior U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Oklahoma.

Adam Marcus is Chief Operations Officer at TechFreedom. He was most recently a Research Fellow & Senior Technologist at The Progress & Freedom Foundation. Prior to PFF, he worked as a technical writer for Citrix Systems, Inc., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Department of Transportation. He has also interned at the California Public Utilities Commission and the Cato Institute and provided technical consulting to a number of non-profits. Marcus received his law degree from Santa Clara University, his MA in Communications, Culture & Technology from Georgetown University, and his BA in English from the University of Florida.