Tim Wu

The Master Switch

The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A New Yorker and Fortune Best Book of the Year Analyzing the strategic maneuvers of today's great information powers-Apple, Google, and an eerily resurgent AT&T-Tim Wu uncovers a time-honored pattern in which invention begets industry and industry begets empire. 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"? Here, Tim Wu shows how a battle royale for Internet's future is brewing, and this is one war we dare not tune out.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House LLC US
• Trade Paperback
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 133mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 370g
• ISBN-13: 9780307390998
• ISBN-10: 0307390993
• Artikelnr.: 33152727

Autorenporträt

Tim Wu