Experts
Jonathan Zittrain
Co-Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
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How Spam Predicts the Stock Market
Jonathan Zittrain discusses the role that a common breed of junk mail plays in determining the actual price of stocks. Read More
August 28, 2009 | In Business & Economics
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Big Think Interview with Jonathan Zittrain
A discussion with the professor and co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. Read More
August 28, 2009 | In Media & Internet, Politics & Policy, Science & Tech, Truth & Justice
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What Keeps Jonathan Zittrain up at Night?
The Professor of Law reflects on the potential wonders and horrors of our techno-driven future. Read More
August 28, 2009 | In Media & Internet, Science & Tech
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The Secret to Success: “The Procrastination Principal”
The Co-Founder of Harvard Law’s Center for Internet and Society explains how the internet triumphed over rival networks, and why this strategy continues to perplex governments around the world. Read More
August 28, 2009 | In Media & Internet
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Jonathan Zittrain on How Small, Everyday Gadgets May Become the Next Big Brother
The Harvard Law Professor explains the potential underbelly of technological convenience—an unshakable, and often citizen-enforced, system of surveillance. Read More
August 28, 2009 | In Science & Tech
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Jonathan Zittrain discusses the prospect of an “anchor point” in cyberspace. Read More
August 28, 2009 | In Media & Internet, Science & Tech
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Jonathan Zittrain examines the privacy issues surrounding the world’s largest social media site, highlighting how we can protect personal data and even control the fate of worrisome photos. Read More
August 28, 2009 | In Media & Internet
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The Long and "Silent Subway Ride" of the Future
As companies learn the advantages of third-party, virtual labor, Jonathan Zittrain believes that the human mind is becoming commodified as a sort of “ubiquitous computer.” Here the Harvard Law professor provides examples of this trend and weighs in on its likely impacts. Read More
August 28, 2009 | In Business & Economics, Future
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Is Google a threat to free culture?
January 9, 2009 | In Media & Internet
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Will the Internet kill the newspaper?
The problem with newspapers, Zittrain says, is Craigslist. Read More
April 22, 2008 | In Media & Internet
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Free Culture and Copyright Law on the Internet
What is free culture? What should we protect with copyright laws, and do they need to change? Read More
April 22, 2008 | In Media & Internet, Truth & Justice
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Jonathan Zittrain Discusses Cybersabotage
Jonathan Zittrain on cybersabotage. Read More
April 22, 2008 | In Media & Internet
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How should corporations think about Web security?
The top level security issue is how to function in an open and chaotic environment, Zittrain says. Read More
April 22, 2008 | In Business & Economics, Media & Internet
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Jonathan Zittrain on Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop per Child Project
The developed world has had its romp, Zittrain says. Read More
April 22, 2008 | In Business & Economics, Media & Internet, Science & Tech
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Jonathan Zittrain Explores Internet Privacy
Harvard Law Professor Jonathan Zittrain pulls back the digital curtain. Read More
April 22, 2008 | In Media & Internet, Truth & Justice
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Do businesses gain an advantage by adopting open standards?
Even the famously proprietary Bill Gates used generative technology, Zittrain says. Read More
April 22, 2008 | In Business & Economics, Science & Tech
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Can we trust the Internet to regulate itself?
Lincoln put it well: are we capable of governing ourselves? Read More
April 22, 2008 | In Media & Internet
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A New Manhattan Project for Network Computing
Zittrain on what he calls a collective effort, an effort with some urgency, and a sense of sacrifice, of actually being willing to take some time apart from our day to day to make a better system for everybody. Read More
April 22, 2008 | In Media & Internet, Science & Tech
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What is the difference between generative and tethered technologies?
The question of third party coders and walled gardens. Read More
April 22, 2008 | In Media & Internet, Science & Tech
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Why is the future of the Internet so bleak?
Our computers are completely vulnerable to hijackings and ambush, Zittrain says. Read More
April 22, 2008 | In Media & Internet
Jonathan Zittrain is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Previously, he was the Chair in Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University and a principal of the Oxford Internet Institute. He was also a visiting professor at the New York University School of Law and Stanford Law School.
Zittrain’s research interests include battles for control of digital property and content, cryptography, electronic privacy, the roles of intermediaries within Internet architecture, and the useful and unobtrusive deployment of technology in education.
He is also the author of The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It and the book Access Denied which he co-edited.
