Author: Tim Wu
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0307269930
Publisher: Knopf
Features:
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0307269930
Publisher: Knopf
Features:
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Borzoi Books)
In this age of an open Internet, it is easy to forget that every American information industry, beginning with the telephone, has eventually been taken captive by some ruthless monopoly or cartel. Search and download computer ebooks The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Borzoi Books) for free.
Random House Inc 9780307390998 The Master Switch By Wu, Tim Description A history of the industrial wars behind the rise and fall of the 20th-centurys leading information empires traces how such giants as Hollywood, the broadcast networks and AT T introduced major new mediums that were eventually centralized in ways that profoundly shaped Americas communications practices. Reprint. *Author: Wu, Tim *Subtitle: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires *Publication Date: 2011/11/29 *Number of Page. Download The Master Switch computer ebooks
With all our media now traveling a single network, an unprecedented potential is building for centralized control over what Americans see and hear. Could history repeat itself with the next industrial consolidation? Could the Internet-the entire flow of American information-come to be ruled by one corporate leviathan in possession of "the master switch"? That is the big question of Tim Wu's pathbreaking book.
As Wu's sweeping history shows, each of the new media of the twentieth century-radio, telephone, television, and film-was
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
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 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'? Analyzing the strategic maneuvers of today's great informati
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With all our media now traveling a single network, an unprecedented potential is building for centralized control over what Americans see and hear
As Wu's sweeping history shows, each of the new media of the twentieth century-radio, telephone, television, and film-was
