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Wu, Tim.
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Telecommunication -- History.
Information technology -- History.
Mass media -- History.
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Wu, Tim.
Telecommunication -- History.
Information technology -- History.
Mass media -- History.
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The master switch : the rise and fall of information empires / Tim Wu.
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Wu, Tim.
Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
Call #:
384
W959m
Subjects
Telecommunication -- History.
Information technology -- History.
Mass media -- History.
ISBN:
9780307269935
0307269930
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
x, 366 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Notes:
"This is a Borzoi book" --T.p. verso.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-354) and index.
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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