TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wu,Tim
TI  - The master switch: the rise and fall of information empires 
SN  - 9781848879850 (pbk.)
AV  - TK5102.2 .B73 2010
U1  - 384.041 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - London
PB  - Atlantic Books
KW  - Mass media
KW  - History
KW  - Telecommunication
KW  - Information technology
KW  - fast
KW  - Telecommunications industry
KW  - Information industry
KW  - Information and communications technology
KW  - Broadcasting
KW  - Internet
KW  - Overseas item
KW  - AT&T
N1  - Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index; The disruptive founder -- Radio dreams -- Mr. Vail is a big man -- The time is not ripe for feature films -- Centralize all radio activities -- The paramount ideal -- The foreign attachment -- The legion of decency -- FM radio -- We now add sight to sound -- The right kind of breakup -- The radicalism of the Internet revolution -- Nixon's cable -- Broken bell -- Esperanto for machines -- Turner does television -- Mass production of the spirit -- The return of AT&T -- A surprising wreck -- Father and son -- The separations principle
N2  - A secret history of the industrial wars behind the rise and fall of the twentieth century' s great information empires - Hollywood, the broadcast networks, and ATandT - asking one big question: Could history repeat itself, with one giant entity taking control of all information?
ER  -