Name: The Web as random acts of kindness
Uploaded: 2009-09-21T01:00:00Z
Duration: 19 min 35 s
Description: Feeling like the world is becoming less friendly? Social theorist Jonathan Zittrain begs to differ. The Internet, he suggests, is made up of millions of disinterested acts of kindness, curiosity and trust.

Feeling like the world is becoming less friendly? Social theorist Jonathan Zittrain begs to differ. The Internet, he suggests, is made up of millions of disinterested acts of kindness, curiosity and trust.

Jonathan Zittrain: The Web as random acts of kindness

The Web as random acts of kindness

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