Chiropractic Blog

Naturally the title, The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It, by Jonathan Zittrain caught my eye! As I spend more and more energy here on the Patient Media website and even more with our sister company, Perfect Patients, the future of the Internet is something I’m keenly interested in. With almost 100 pages of footnotes, this may be one of the most heavily researched and documented books I’ve ever read. And I’ll save you the trouble. Zittrain documents the movement from “gated communities” like CompuServe, Prodigy and AOL to the more open landscape we have today. With it has come viruses, malware, phishing, pornography, privacy issues and other unsavory dangers. The author’s concern is that we’ll retreat to these more predictable and “safe” environments and in doing so, many of the creative and collaborative benefits the web has offered us, such as Wikipedia, Linux and others will be lost.