I can't help but be excited about the future, the Internet's role in the future, and libraries' roles in both the future of the Internet and the future of society when it is even more dominated by the Internet. Yet I also can't help being a bit petrified by the whole thing. Done right, the Internet is AMAZING. But it could quickly go so wrong if we make unwise decisions.
Here are two videos that I have seen this week that have given me some food for thought. They are both about the future of the Internet but in completely different ways. What is the Internet? What will it become? Who controls it? Why is all of this so important?
Video 1 - What is the future of the Internet? (2 minute youtube animation created as an introduction to an architectural masters thesis)
Video 2 - The Future of the Internet: Private Sheriffs in Cyberspace at the Oxford Internet Institute (an hour-long lecture by Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Harvard Law School, Co-Founder and Faculty Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society)
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