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In this age of an open Internet, it is easy to forget that every American information industry, beginning with the telephone, has eventually been taken captive by some ruthless monopoly or cartel.  With all our media now traveling a single network, an unprecedented potential is building for centralized control over what Americans see and hear.  Could history repeat itself with the next industrial consolidation? Could the Internet—the entire flow of American information—come to be ruled by one corporate leviathan in possession of “the master switch”? That is the big question of Tim Wu’s pathbreaking book. As Wu’s sweeping history shows, each of the new media of the twentieth century—radio, telephone, television, and film—was born free and open.  Each invited unrestricted use and enterprising experiment until some would-be mogul battled his way to total domination.  Here are stories of an uncommon will to power, the power over information: Adolph Zukor, who took a technology once used as commonly as YouTube is today and made it the exclusive prerogative of a kingdom called Hollywood .  .  .  NBC’s founder, David Sarnoff, who, to save his broadcast empire from disruptive visionaries, bullied one inventor (of electronic television) into alcoholic despair and another (this one of FM radio, and his boyhood friend) into suicide .  .  .  And foremost, Theodore Vail, founder of the Bell System, the greatest information empire of all time, and a capitalist whose faith in Soviet-style central planning set the course of every information industry thereafter. Explaining how invention begets industry and industry begets empire—a progress often blessed by government, typically with stifling consequences for free expression and technical innovation alike—Wu identifies a time-honored pattern in the maneuvers of today’s great information powers: Apple, Google, and an eerily resurgent AT&amp;T.  A battle royal looms for the Internet’s future, and with almost every aspect of our lives now dependent on that network, this is one war we dare not tune out. Part industrial exposé, part meditation on what freedom requires in the information age, The Master Switch is a stirring illumination of a drama that has played out over decades in the shadows of our national life and now culminates with terrifying implications for our future. 

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Tim Wu is an author, a professor at Columbia Law School, and a contributing writer for the New York Times.. He has written about technology in numerous publications, and coined the phrase "net neutrality."Tim Wu is an author, a professor at Columbia Law School, and a contributing writer for the New York Times.. He has written about technology in numerous publications, and coined the phrase "net neutrality."

Tim Wu's The Attention Merchants is a provocative history of the new-media landscape, from pre-Madison Avenue advertising to the explosion of the mobile web. Drawing on research and interviews with leading thinkers—from Google to Facebook, from academia to journalism, Wu argues that our modern attention economy has been shaped by long-standing institutions whose business models depend on harvesting our human attention.

The Attention Merchants

Bestselling author of The Master Switch and The Attention Merchants, Tim Wu warns that the current corporate concentration in the global economy is threatening our economic and political future. We live in an age of extreme corporate concentration, with industries dominated by a few behemoths—banks, pharmaceutical companies, and tech companies among them. But concern over what Louis Brandeis called the curse of bigness can no longer remain the province of specialist lawyers and economists: it has spilled over into politics and even threatens democracy itself. History suggests that tolerance of inequality and failing to control excessive corporate power may prompt the rise of populism, nationalism, extremist politicians—even fascist regimes. In short, as Wu warns, we are in grave danger of repeating the signature errors of the twentieth century.

Jeff Jordan is an American venture capitalist at the Silicon Valley firm Andreessen Horowitz and the former President and CEO of OpenTable.

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