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"A must-read for all Americans who want to remain the ones deciding what they can read, watch, and listen to.โ โArianna Huffington
Analyzing the strategic maneuvers of todayโs great information powersโApple, Google, and an eerily resurgent AT&TโTim Wu uncovers a time-honored pattern in which invention begets industry and industry begets empire.
It is easy to forget that every development in the history of the American information industryโfrom the telephone to radio to filmโonce 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 pathbreaking book, Tim Wu asks: will the Internet follow the same fate? Could the Webโthe entire flow of American informationโcome to be ruled by a corporate leviathan in possession of "the master switch"? Here, Tim Wu shows how a battle royale for the Internetโs future is brewing, and this is one war we dare not tune out. ISBN:9780307390998
It is easy to forget that every development in the history of the American information industryโfrom the telephone to radio to filmโonce 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 pathbreaking book, Tim Wu asks: will the Internet follow the same fate? Could the Webโthe entire flow of American informationโcome to be ruled by a corporate leviathan in possession of "the master switch"? Here, Tim Wu shows how a battle royale for the Internetโs future is brewing, and this is one war we dare not tune out. ISBN:9780307390998
