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The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
The Master Switch The Rise and Fall of Information Empires Author: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 pathbreak... more »ing book, 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« less
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ISBN-13: 9781455884391 ISBN-10: 1455884391 Publication Date: 6/19/2012 Edition:MP3 Una Rating: