Event Listing - Literary Arts
Wed Nov 4

The Commonwealth Club Presents

Jonathan Zittrain, Author of The Future of the Interneet - And How to Stop It"


Tel. 1-800-847-7730
Website
$12 - $20
Tickets
Box Office: 1-800-847-7730

Location
Date and Time
Palo Alto Art Center
1313 Newell Road
Palo Alto, CA
district: Palo Alto

Wed Nov 4 (Check-in 6:30 p.m., Program 7:00 p.m., Book-signing 8:00 p.m.)

Description
Networks connect people as well as devices, and when they are cheap and easy to use, intellectual tasks can be broken out and performed elsewhere by other people. We are in the initial stages of distributed human thinking that can be directed at mental tasks the same way that surplus remote server rackspace accommodate spikes in Internet traffic. Zittrain discusses the prospects and issues for this future in which human computing is ubiquitous and nearly any mental act can be bought and sold.