{"product_id":"the-master-switch-the-rise-and-fall-of-information-empires-paperback","title":"The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTim Wu\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFortune \u003c\/i\u003eBest Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A must-read for all Americans who want to remain the ones deciding what they can read, watch, and listen to.\" --Arianna Huffington\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnalyzing the strategic maneuvers of today's great information powers--Apple, Google, and an eerily resurgent AT\u0026amp;T--Tim Wu uncovers a time-honored pattern in which invention begets industry and industry begets empire. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTim Wu \u003c\/b\u003eis an author, policy advocate and professor at Columbia University, currently serving as Senior Advisor to the United States Federal Trade Commission. In 2006, he was recognized as one of fifty leaders in science and technology by \u003ci\u003eScientific American \u003c\/i\u003emagazine, and in the following year, \u003ci\u003e01238\u003c\/i\u003e magazine listed him as one of Harvard's one hundred most influential graduates. He writes for \u003ci\u003eSlate, \u003c\/i\u003ewhere he won the Lowell Thomas gold medal for travel journalism, and he has contributed to \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTime, The New York Times, The Washington Post, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eForbes\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.76 x 8.23 x 5.25 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 29, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51754167140640,"sku":"9780307390998","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/70a832951333ed0c236ba06247595e5a.webp?v=1780034851","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-master-switch-the-rise-and-fall-of-information-empires-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}