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 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. He shows how a battle royale for Internet�s future is brewing, and this is one war we dare not tune out.
Authors
Tim Wu
Additional Info
- Release Date: 2011-11-29
- Publisher: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780307390998
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