The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
Update: 2012-03-27
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Professor Timothy Wu of Columbia Law School gave a free public lecture on Thursday, March 22, 2012, based on material from his most recent book, The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Alfred A. Knopf: 2010). In The Master Switch, Wu speaks of the cycle of monopolization that has beset the development of information technologies from the telegraph to the telephone, and finally, the Internet. Referring to telecommunications giant AT&T, and more recently Apple, Comcast and Google, Wu identifies a cycle progressing from an openly-operated technology to one increasingly controlled by corporations in a closed system.
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