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The Master Switch : the Rise and Fall of Information Empires by Tim Wu, Tim Wu is a business book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Master Switch : the Rise and Fall of Information Empires about?

A secret history of the industrial wars behind the rise and fall of the twentieth century' s great information empires - Hollywood, the broadcast networks, and ATandT - asking one big question: Could history repeat itself, with one giant entity taking control of all information? Most consider the Internet Age to be a moment of unprecedented freedom in communications and culture. But as Tim Wu shows, each major new medium, from telephone to cable, arrived on a similar wave of idealistic optimism only to become, eventually, the object of industrial consolidation profoundly affecting how we communicate. Every once free and open technology was in time centralized and closed, a huge corporate power taking control of the 'master switch'. Today, as a similar struggle looms over the Internet, increasingly the pipeline of all other media, the stakes have never been higher. To be decided: who gets heard, and what kind of world we live in. Part industrial expose, part meditation on the nature of freedom of expression, part battle cry to save the Internet's best features, The Master Switch brings to light a crucial drama - rife with indelible characters and stories - heretofore played out over

Who reads The Master Switch : the Rise and Fall of Information Empires?

It is typically read by working professionals who need an authoritative practice reference.

Common subject areas: medicine, law, business, engineering.

Author
Tim Wu, Tim Wu
Publisher
Atlantic Books - London
Published
2022
Language
EN
ISBN
9781848879850
Category
business
Subjects
History, Humanities
Rating
3.87 / 5 (4,635 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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