This book explains the extraordinary machine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquityand reveal that the sputtering precisely because of the success of such escape. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on the path to a lockdown, end the cycle of innovationand facilitate new types of control disturbing. The iPod, iPhones, Xboxes, and TiVos are the first wave of Internet-centered products that can not be easily changed by anyone except the vendors or selected partners. or innovative characteris risk. Internet? S current trajectory is one of opportunities lost. Drawing on generative technologies like Wikipedia so far survived their own successes, this book shows how to develop new technologies and social structures that allow users to work creatively and collaboratively, participate in the solution, and become true netizens.? (20080725)