{"id":1081,"date":"2011-12-05T12:10:41","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T12:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orfeu.org\/2011\/12\/05\/if-we-allow-ourselves-to-be-lulled-into-satisfaction-with-walled-gardens-well-miss-out-on-innovations\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T22:02:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T21:02:55","slug":"zittrain-personal-computer-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/zittrain-personal-computer-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Zittrain &#8211; The personal computer is dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If we allow ourselves to be lulled into satisfaction with walled gardens, we&#8217;ll miss out on innovations to which the gardeners object, and we&#8217;ll set ourselves up for censorship of code and content that was previously impossible. We need some angry nerds.&#8221; Great post on why &#8220;web silos&#8221; are a pretty bad idea for users.<\/p>\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-att\">\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-att-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2011\/11\/30\/189455\/the-personal-computer-is-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zittrain in Technology Review: The personal computer is dead<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-att-img\" style=\"float: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.harvard.edu\/news\/2011\/11\/30_zittrain-the-personal-computer-is-dead.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/BdvKavD7DRjWTkP4f--g3172SbmYcK9OSjpPTxDUyPMRYMu5J24rNeJxKFcUoXRoYUzUQPfxFCEnuur_QErpUdoC0ReIjxu18QFnZudvrQn11XLJMJ0hMXlmWUMiLvJM3ntUNn-_=w120-h120\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-att-txt\">Skip to Main Content. Harvard Law School. Dean&#8217;s Welcome | About | Directory | Giving to HLS | Green is the New Crimson. Search. Prospective Students. JD Admissions; Graduate Program; Special Prog&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-backlink\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/112390264067431209914\/posts\/h7mNDmPWM1u\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This was posted on Google+<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If we allow ourselves to be lulled into satisfaction with walled gardens, we&#8217;ll miss out on innovations to which the gardeners object, and we&#8217;ll set ourselves up for censorship of code and content that was previously impossible. We need some angry nerds.&#8221; Great post on why &#8220;web silos&#8221; are a pretty bad idea for users. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-s-r"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa7w8s-hr","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2156,"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions\/2156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}