Master Switch The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

Name: Master Switch The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
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ISBN: 9780307269935

ISBN-10: 0307269930

ISBN-13: 9780307269935

Edition: 2010

Authors: Tim Wu

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A secret history of the industrial wars behind the rise and fall of the twentieth centuryrs"s great information empires-Hollywood, the broadcast networks, and AT&T-asking one big question: Could history repeat itself, with one giant entity taking control of American 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 Americans communicate. Every once free and open technology was in time centralized and closed, a huge…

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List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/2/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



Introduction



The Rise



The Disruptive Founder



Radio Dreams



Mr. Vail Is a Big Man



The Time Is Not Ripe for Feature Films



Centralize All Radio Activities



The Paramount Ideal



Beneath the All-Seeing Eye



The Foreign Attachment



The Legion of Decency



FM Radio



We Now Add Sight to Sound



The Rebels, the Challengers, and the Fall



The Right Kind of Breakup



The Radicalism of the Internet Revolution



Nixon's Cable



Broken Bell



Esperanto for Machines



Reborn Without a Soul



Turner Does Television



Mass Production of the Spirit



The Return of AT&T



The Internet Against Everyone



A Surprising Wreck



Father and Son



The Separations Principle


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index