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Aired: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 11-12PM ET
Apple CEO Steve Jobs shows off the new iPhone. (AP) |
By host Tom Ashbrook
The world loves its iPods, iPhones, TiVo, OnStar, XBox and Blackberries. They all run off the Internet. But the Internet was built -- and built out -- in the age of the personal computer, when anyone could climb on and tinker from their keyboard.
That openness -- almost anarchy -- made the Net a wide-open realm for innovation. Its dream was liberating everything from data to democracy.
Now, web guru Jonathan Zittrain worries that hyper-convenient but closed products like the iPhone are shutting down the party.
This hour, On Point: The gadgets we love, and the future of the Internet.
| · | Jonathan Zittrain, author of "The Future of the Internet -- and How to Stop It," professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University, and co-founder of Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society | | · | Adam Thierer, Director of the Progress and Freedom Foundation's Center for Digital Media Freedom | | · | Jay Greene, Seattle bureau chief for BusinessWeek magazine and author of this week's cover story, "Inside Microsoft's War Against Google" |
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