A draft of my first piece for The New Republic, a review of Jonathan Zittrain’s book, The Future of the Internet (and how to stop it). Here is an excerpt that might not make the final cut:
I’ve known Zittrain since 1997, when we met in a strange class called “The Law of Cyberspace,” taught at Harvard by an obscure visiting professor named Lawrence Lessig. Zittrain was sort of cyber-teaching assistant, tasked with duties like running a “Multi-User Dungeon” for the class. He was, and is, hilarious, as you needed to be when trying to get a room of uptight law students to “explore cyberspace.”
Then and now, Zittrain and I agreed on a lot. Having grown up as computer and networking hobbyists (geek is another word)…
