The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

Author:   Tim Wu ,  Marc Vietor ,  Marc Vietor
Publisher:   Brilliance Corporation
Edition:   Unabridged
ISBN:  

9781501264368


Publication Date:   30 June 2015
Format:   Audio  Audio Format
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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 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”? 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 royal for the Internet’s future is brewing, and this is one war we dare not tune out. “Fascinating, balanced, and rigorous—a tour de force.” —The New York Review of Books “Entertaining.… There’s a sharp insight and a surprising fact on nearly every page of Wu’s masterful survey.” —The Boston Globe

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Author:   Tim Wu ,  Marc Vietor ,  Marc Vietor
Publisher:   Brilliance Corporation
Imprint:   Brilliance Audio
Edition:   Unabridged
Dimensions:   Width: 13.30cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 17.10cm
Weight:   0.082kg
ISBN:  

9781501264368


ISBN 10:   1501264362
Publication Date:   30 June 2015
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Audio
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
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Marc Vietor is an actor, born in La Jolla, California, and now living in New York. He is a graduate of the Drama Division of the Juilliard School and Yale College, and has appeared in productions for The Roundabout Theatre Company, The Public Theatre, Theatre For A New Audience, The Red Bull Theatre, and Playwrights Horizons. He is also active in the audiobook world, having voiced a number of fiction and nonfiction works.

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