The word "gadget" is often used in the media or electronic media. If we look in the dictionary, it is usually interpreted as a practical tool. Gadgets are designed differently and are considered more sophisticated than normal technology available at the time of its creation.
Increased advanced equipment (gadgets) such as iPhone, Blackberry and Xbox, it threatens innovation that has lasted for tens of years in building the Internet, a well-known scholar, through his new book. Professor Jonathan Zittrain says sophisticated equipment "must have" closed and inhibit creativity and transform consumers into passive users of technology. Zittrain is a professor of the role and regulation of the Internet at the Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University.
Prof. Zittrain exemplifies the striking differences between the first personal computer, the Apple II, which was made in the 70s, with the latest tools from Apple, the iPhone. Latest gadgets that he described as a "tethered appliances".
"They are easy to use but hard to make work a tool. They tied it easy for providers to change it after the item is no longer for sale."
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