![]() There's a sharp insight and a surprising fact on nearly every page of Wu's masterful survey. "Fascinating, balanced, and rigorous-a tour de force." - The New York Review of Books One may or may not subscribe to all of Wus suggested reforms, but anyone who picks this book up will put it down better educated than they were when they began, and on an issue of profound social consequence. He shows how a battle royal for the Internet's future is brewing, and this is one war we dare not tune out. One final point: The Master Switch is written in a clear yet highly literate style that holds close to a compelling narrative arc. In this path-breaking audiobook, 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"?Īnalyzing the strategic maneuvers of today's great information powers-Apple, Google, and an eerily resurgent AT&T-Wu uncovers a time-honored pattern in which invention begets industry and industry begets empire. 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. ![]()
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