The Dynamic Internet: How Technology, Users, and Businesses are Changing the Network

by Christopher S. Yoo

The Dynamic How Technology, Users, and Businesses are Changing the Network offers a comprehensive history of the Internet and efforts to regulate its use. University of Pennsylvania law professor Christopher S. Yoo contends that rather than engaging in prescriptive regulatory oversight, the government should promote competition in other ways, such as reducing costs for consumers, lowering entry barriers for new producers, and increasing transparency. These reforms would benefit consumers while permitting the industry to develop new solutions for emerging problems. It is fruitless for government to attempt to lock the burgeoning online industry into any particular architecture; rather, policymakers should act with the knowledge that no one actor can foresee how the network is likely to evolve in the future.

184 pages, Hardcover

First published September 16, 2012

About the author

Christopher S. Yoo, John H. Chestnut Professor of Law, Communication, and Computer and Information Science, is Founding Director of the Center of Technology, Innovation, and Competition at the University of Pennsylvania.