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...ternet— And How to Stop It This page intentionally left blank The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain Yale University Pres... ... of the Internet And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain Yale University Press New Haven & London A Caravan book. For more information, visit www.carav... ...s.org. The cover was designed by Ivo van der Ent, based on his winning entry of an open competition at www.worth1000.com. Copyright © 2008 by Jonathan... ...cu- mulated millions of subscribers. They were crushed by a network built by government researchers and computer scientists who had no CEO, no master ... ...his spare time devising a punch card system for sur- veyors to use. The U.S. government commissioned him to tally the 1890 Census with his new system,... ...e to prevent other users from running that software online. The “programming areas” became relics, and the Hol- lerith model prevailed. Perhaps the co... ... one that has been rediscovered today in some severely bandwidth-constrained areas of the world. 23 Those with Jennings’s urge to code soon had an alt... ...services, to promote the free flow of informa- tion to societies in which the local media is censored, or to make the most effi- cient use of network res... ... laborations. Open source projects too ambitious for a single programmer or localized group of programmers to achieve alone have been made possible b...

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...Most readers of this book will have had some type of religious instruction. Whether as children we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live...

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...on Published by the Author York, Western Australia 2006 The first edition of this book was published under the title The Mystical Chorus by Millenniu... ...lished under the title The Mystical Chorus by Millennium Books [an imprint of E.J. Dwyer (Australia) Pty. Ltd.] in 1995. This second edition, with tex... ....] in 1995. This second edition, with text reset, various emendations, and new index, is published by the Author, Donald Broadribb, owner of the publi... ...en Scientologists shortly returned as the Church of Scientology. The State government of Western Australia decided that it would determine whether an ... ...lt, ongoing legal problem, because in Aboriginal culture many geographical areas are considered sacred sites and therefore off-limits to industrial or... ...to consult professional anthropologists to decide the status of particular areas. In Australia, rather frequently, anthropologists consulted by the Fe... ... In Australia, rather frequently, anthropologists consulted by the Federal government give a much wider meaning to the word “sacred” than those consul... ...ve been primarily organized on a city to city, or town to town, basis with local shrines, temples, and priesthoods which held much in com- mon but wer... ...ve been primarily organized on a city to city, or town to town, basis with local shrines, temples, and priesthoods which held much in common but were ...

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...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . ... ...uman Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI ... ................................................................ 117 TYPE OF GOVERNMENT ................................................................... .............................................................. 163 STATE AND LOCAL BUDGETS ................................................................ ...usinessman. He finds your country fascinating and wants to list it on the New York Stock Exchange. Lee isn‘t so sure he likes Kino. There‘s nobody t... ...tion or capital punishment or euthanasia while Chan‘s work is more in the areas that motivate us psychologically, like power or love or meaning.‖ ... ...iffer somewhat, for example from Catholics to Jews or from businessmen to government workers. Values are concepts that we hold in high esteem. For ex... ...r good or bad but thinking makes it so. ‗ ―Our values affect many areas of our lives. For example in a medical setting we see a mental illne... ...t will find itself outside the society. ---―I understand that many local priests back their parishioners‘ concerns but the Vatican‘s rules pu...

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