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It is easy to forget that every development in the history of the American information industryfrom the telephone to radio to filmonce 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 Webthe entire flow of American informationcome to be ruled by a corporate leviathan in possession of "the master switch"? Analyzing the strategic maneuvers of todays great information powersApple, Google, and an eerily resurgent AT&TWu uncovers a time-honored pattern in which invention begets industry and industry begets empire. He shows how a battle royale for Internets future is brewing, and this is one war we dare not tune out From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. According to Columbia professor and policy advocate Wu (Who Controls the Internet), the great information empires of the 20th century have followed a clear and distinctive pattern: after the chaos that follows a major technological innovation, a corporate power intervenes and centralizes control of the new medi

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Author

Tim Wu, Tim Wu

Publisher

Vintage Books

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307594655

Category

business

Subjects

Computer Science, Technology, Science

Rating

3.87 / 5 (4,635 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14