The master switch : the rise and fall of information empires / Tim Wu.
Publication details: London : Atlantic Books, 2010.Description: 366 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781848879850 (pbk.)
- 384.041 22
- TK5102.2 .B73 2010
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 384.041 WU | Available | 069871 |
Formerly CIP. Uk
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.
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?
