Civic Technologies and the Future of the Internet

Published: May 4, 2009, 7 a.m.

Jonathan Zittrain, Professor, Harvard Law School and Co-Founder and Faculty Co-Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society gave a talk at Dartmouth on May 4, 2009 in cooperation with the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy. Dr. Zittrain discussed 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 without needing help from private parties.