Rhod writes:Jonathan Zittrain was acclaimed the other week as the "superstar" of Harvard's Berkman Center for the Study of the Internet and Society. The speaker was the Berkman's retiring executive director, John Palfrey, who should know. The Berkman's 10th anniversary conference is fated to go down as an event that inspired a good deal of early 21st century internet policy, and if you go to the conference wiki you can read even more fulsome praise of JZ, as he is known to his friends.

His book "The Future of the Internet -- and How to Stop It" sets out some of the disadvantages of what he calls the "appliancization" of computers.

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