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The master switch : the rise and fall of information empires / Tim Wu.

By: Wu, TimMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2010Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 366 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: 9780307269935 (hbk.)Subject(s): Telecommunication -- History | Information technology -- History | Mass media -- HistoryDDC classification: 384.041 LOC classification: HE7631 | .W8 2010
Contents:
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.
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"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.

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