TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wu,Tim
TI  - The master switch: the rise and fall of information empires 
SN  - 9780307269935 (hbk.)
AV  - HE7631 .W8 2010
U1  - 384.041 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf
KW  - Telecommunication
KW  - History
KW  - Information technology
KW  - Mass media
N1  - "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
ER  -