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Wednesday 4 June The Open Rights Group's Becky Hogge in conversation with Jonathan Zittrain, author of the Future of the Internet and How to Stop It, and leading technology critic Bill Thompson, hosted by the British Computer Society. Will consumer pressure for a safer net mean the end of open platforms and rapid innovation? And should the geeks who "get" the net care if the rest of the world prefer TiVos and iPhones?Further questions to info at openrightsgroup dot org or 020 7096 1079. Speaker Biographies Jonathan Zittrain holds the Chair in Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University and is a principal of the Oxford Internet Institute. He is also the Jack N. & Lillian R. Berkman Visiting Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School and co-founder with Charles Nesson of its Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Bill Thompson is an English technology writer best known for his weekly column in the Technology section of BBC News Online and his appearances on Digital Planet, a radio show on the BBC World Service (Sourced from Wikipedia) Becky Hogge is Executive Director of the Open Rights Group.

• Release Date

  Jun 6, 2008

• Runtime

  01:36:12