As fascinating, wide-ranging, and, ultimately, inspiring book about communications policy and the information industries as you could hope to find. Important reading.” -Chris Anderson, author of The Long Tail and Free, and editor of Wired magazine “A brilliant explanation and history. His scholarly command of the past century of communications innovation is prodigious.” - The Plain Dealer “My pick for economics book of the year.” -Ezra Klein, The Washington Post “An explosive history that makes it clear how the information business became what it is today. makes it valuable to the non-wonk wondering how we got where we are today, and where we might be headed next.” - Salon “Engaging. The economy and common sense of The Master Switch. A substantial and well-written account of the five major communications industries that have shaped the world as we know it: telephony, radio, movies, television and the Internet. There’s a sharp insight and a surprising fact on nearly every page of Wu’s masterful survey.” - The Boston Globe “Unexpectedly fascinating. An intellectually ambitious history of modern communications.” - The New York Times Book Review “Fascinating, balanced, and rigorous-a tour de force.” - The New York Review of Books “Entertaining. “Brilliant.” - Forbes “Thought-provoking.
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 the Internet’s future is brewing, and this is one war we dare not tune out. Each of these, however, grew to be dominated by a monopolist or cartel. 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. A New Yorker and Fortune Best Book of the Year "A must-read for all Americans who want to remain the ones deciding what they can read, watch, and listen to.” -Arianna Huffington 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.
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