Battle for the Internet: Walled gardens look rosy for Facebook, Apple - and would-be censors http://j.mp/I3BV2B (Guardian) Zittrain's real worry is that "the personal computer is dead". His conclusion is a call to arms: "We need some angry nerds" - people capable of breaking out of the walled gardens. Indeed, the US government has found some: it has backed projects such as "the Internet in a suitcase", which could set up a telecommunications network inside a country separate from the existing infrastructure. Zittrain acknowledges such projects, but for the wider world, he says, "convenience is great. I wouldn't call for a return to the green blinking cursor of [Microsoft's pre-Windows] MS-DOS or the [text-based] Apple II. But we should build architectures that permit innovation and experimentation if consumers wish to go 'off-roading'." ------------------------------