The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

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It is easy to disregard that each and 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 Web does as of late. Every of these, on the other hand, grew to be dominated by a monopolist or cartel. In this pathbreaking book, Tim Wu asks: will the Web follow the same fate? Could the Web–all of the float of American information–come to be ruled by a corporate leviathan in possession of “the master switch”?

Analyzing the strategic maneuvers of as of late’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 Web’s future is brewing, and that is one war we dare not tune out

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