Wu, Tim.
The master switch : the rise and fall of information empires / Tim Wu. - 1st ed. - New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2010. - x, 366 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
"This is a Borzoi book" --T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-354) and index.
The rise. 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 -- Beneath the All-seeing Eye. The foreign attachment ; The legion of decency ; FM radio ; We now add sight to sound -- The rebels, the challengers, and the fall. The right kind of breakup ; The radicalism of the Internet revolution ; Nixon's cable ; Broken Bell ; Esperanto for machines -- Reborn without a soul. Turner does television ; Mass production of the spirit ; The return of AT&T -- The Internet against everyone. A surprising wreck ; Father and son ; The separations principle.
9780307269935 (hbk.)
2010004137
Telecommunication--History.
Information technology--History.
Mass media--History.
HE7631 / .W8 2010
384.041 / WU 2010
The master switch : the rise and fall of information empires / Tim Wu. - 1st ed. - New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2010. - x, 366 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
"This is a Borzoi book" --T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-354) and index.
The rise. 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 -- Beneath the All-seeing Eye. The foreign attachment ; The legion of decency ; FM radio ; We now add sight to sound -- The rebels, the challengers, and the fall. The right kind of breakup ; The radicalism of the Internet revolution ; Nixon's cable ; Broken Bell ; Esperanto for machines -- Reborn without a soul. Turner does television ; Mass production of the spirit ; The return of AT&T -- The Internet against everyone. A surprising wreck ; Father and son ; The separations principle.
9780307269935 (hbk.)
2010004137
Telecommunication--History.
Information technology--History.
Mass media--History.
HE7631 / .W8 2010
384.041 / WU 2010