![]() There's a sharp insight and a surprising fact on nearly every page of Wu's masterful survey." - The Boston Globe "Fascinating, balanced, and rigorous-a tour de force." - The New York Review of Books An intellectually ambitious history of modern communications." - The New York Times Book Review ![]() In this pathbreaking 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"? Here, Tim Wu shows how a battle royale for the Internet's future is brewing, and this is one war we dare not tune out. Each of these, however, grew to be dominated by a monopolist or cartel. 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. "A must-read for all Americans who want to remain the ones deciding what they can read, watch, and listen to." -Arianna HuffingtonĪnalyzing the strategic maneuvers of today's great information powers-Apple, Google, and an eerily resurgent AT&T-Tim Wu uncovers a time-honored pattern in which invention begets industry and industry begets empire. A New Yorker and Fortune Best Book of the Year ![]()
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