Almost a decade ago, Jonathan Zittrain, a Harvard professor, warned us that the internet may go in one of two directions.
The favourable outcome, he describes, is a system where ownership of content is decentralized and individuals are free to generate their own content. The alternative, Zittrain warned, is that we may be headed towards a closed system in which the means of production of content would be concentrated within the hands of just a few big players, effectively limiting the power of individuals both socioeconomically and politically.
