Jonathan Zittrain: “Minds for Sale”

January 2nd, 2010 by Ville Miettinen

In this video Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law at Harvard, best known for his book The Future of the Internet – And How to Stop It, gives a speech about crowdsourcing and cloud labor at the Berkman West reception. He first introduces some of the better-known human computing projects and companies, e.g., Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, LiveOps, The ESP Game, and Innocentive, and then dives into the complex ethical and legal issues the industry needs to face in the near future.

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