The growth of new technology, including the current generation of video game consoles, could potentially put a damper in the future of innovation, says a professor at Oxford in a new book.
John Zittrain, professor of internet goverance and regulation at the Oxford institute, says that items such as the iPhone, Blackberry, and Xbox could destroy the old system where mainstream tech could be “influenced, even revolutionized, out of left field.”
“They are appliances in that they are easy to use, while not easy to tinker with,” he writes. “They are tethered because it is easy to for their vendors to change them from afar, long after the devices have left warehouses and showrooms.”
He later goes on to elaborate that while amateur enthusiasts have supplied a wealth of ideas, the rising emergence of hackers has disrupted the industry’s loose structure.
“I don’t want to see a two-tier world where only the experts can survive … and the non-experts are stuck between something they don’t understand and something that limits them,” Zittrain told Reuters in an interview.
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