Generative Internet

generativity - the "capacity for unrelated and unaccredited audiences to build and distribute code and content through the Internet to its tens of millions of attached personal computers"

URL = http://www.harvardlawreview.org/issues/119/may06/zittrain.pdf

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Concept by Jonathan Zittrain at http://www.harvardlawreview.org/issues/119/may06/zittrain.pdf

"The idea is that an interconnected network of multipurpose devices (computers) that can be programmed over and over (by downloading software) to execute tasks they were not originally programmed for is a typical generative grid, very conducive to innovation and creativity, to allow whoever to create and share content, etc..." (http://giussani.typepad.com/loip/2006/12/zittrains_gener.html)