The Master Switch by Tim Wu

The Master Switch by Tim Wu

It is easy to forget that every development in the history of the American information industry--from the telephone to radio to film--once existed in an open and chaotic marketplace inhabited by entrepreneurs and utopians, just as the Internet does today. Each of these, however, grew to be dominated by a monopolist or cartel. In this path-breaking audiobook, Tim Wu asks: will the Internet follow the same fate? Could the Web--the entire flow of American information--come to be ruled by a corporate leviathan in possession of the master switch?

Analyzing the strategic maneuvers of today's great information powers--Apple, Google, and an eerily resurgent AT&T--Wu uncovers a time-honored pattern in which invention begets industry and industry begets empire. He shows how a battle royal for the Internet's future is brewing, and this is one war we dare not tune out.

Fascinating, balanced, and rigorous--a tour de force. --The New York Review of Books

Entertaining. There's a sharp insight and a surprising fact on nearly every page of Wu's masterful survey. --The Boston Globe

TIM WU is an author, policy advocate, and professor at Columbia University, best known for coining the term net neutrality. In 2006, Scientific American named him one of 50 leaders in science and technology; in 2007, 01238 magazine listed him as one of Harvard's 100 most influential graduates; in 2013, National Law Journal included him in America's 100 Most Influential Lawyers; and in 2014 and 2015, he was named to the Politico 50. He formerly wrote for Slate, where he won the Lowell Thomas Gold medal for Travel Journalism, and is a contributing writer for The New Yorker. In 2015, he was appointed to the Executive Staff of the Office of New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman as a senior enforcement counsel and special adviser.

From the Hardcover edition.

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ISBN 13	9780307269935
ISBN 10	0307269930
Title	The Master Switch
Author	Tim Wu
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Binding Type	Microfilm
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2010-11-02
Number of pages	384
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