The Master Switch, (Paperback)

from bweegenaar

Superb book, must write a very good blogpost on this book on Blogmania.nl Wu has written a tragic story on the power of arrivals against innovation. It's strange to see how powers in America are working the same as in socialist countries. So long democracy.

from epersonae

As with Nothing to Envy, I should have written this review right after reading the book. It was fantastic, and I'd like to read it again. Great history of the "Information Empires" of the 20th and early 21st century, the continuing tension between openness and control. The history of television s...

from Dangraham

This is a great book! Wu gives an historical account of the large communications empires (phone, film, radio), their rise over competition, partnerships with the government to achieve monopoly status and their general strategy and tactics. He then relates those historical cycles with the Internet...

from rivkat

This excellent book suggests that I might have been wrong. In clear, engaging prose, he offers the histories of a number of communications industries-telegraph, telephone, movies, radio, broadcast TV, cable, and then the internet-arguing that each reveals the influence of a cycle in which an entr...

from bweegenaar

Superb book, must write a very good blogpost on this book on Blogmania.nl Wu has written a tragic story on the power of arrivals against innovation. It's strange to see how powers in America are working the same as in socialist countries. So long democracy.