Here at Chaordix, we like listening to smart people. There’s nothing worse than being excited for a conference, only to hear people talk about the same ideas that were discussed the year before. Therefore, we love when we come across someone that really challenges the way we think. So far in 2010, that person is Jonathan Zittrain. He teaches a course co-hosted by Harvard and Stanford law schools titled “Difficult Problems in Cyberlaw,” and wrote a book,  The Future of the Internet – And How to Stop It

His lectures and posts on Ubiquitous Human Computing (websites like Amazon Mechanical Turk) are thought-provoking and help us think about how everything we are doing has an impact on how we traditionally do work. While we’re dreaming of all of the possibilities of crowdsourcing, it is nice to know that others are thinking about the impact all of those possibilities might bring – and guiding us somewhere positive. Jonathan was kind enough to say we could post his lecture on our blog – and we think you should sit down and watch all 77 minutes as soon as you can.

*note: if you like this, he’s also talked at TED also – buy the book