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Wu, Tim

 
9781848879867: The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
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ISBN 10: 1848879865 ISBN 13: 9781848879867
Editorial: Atlantic Books, 2012

Sinopsis

The Internet Age: on the face of it, an era of unprecedented freedom in both communication and culture. Yet in the past, each major new medium, from telephone to satellite television, has crested on a wave of similar idealistic optimism, before succumbing to the inevitable undertow of industrial consolidation. Every once free and open technology has, in time, become centralized and closed; as corporate power has taken control of the 'master switch.' Today a similar struggle looms over the Internet, and as it increasingly supersedes all other media the stakes have never been higher.

Part industrial exposé, part examination of freedom of expression, The Master Switch reveals a crucial drama - full of indelible characters - as it has played out over decades in the shadows of global communication.

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Acerca del autor

Tim Wu is an author, a policy advocate, and a professor at Columbia University. A veteran of Silicon Valley, in 2006 he was recognized as one of fifty leaders in science and technology by Scientific American magazine. He won the Lowell Thomas gold medal for Travel Journalism, and has contributed to The New Yorker, The New York Times and Forbes. He is also a fellow of the New America Foundation and the chairman of the media reform organization Free Press. He lives in New York.

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Editorial
Atlantic Books
Año de publicación
2012
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1848879865
ISBN 13 
9781848879867
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
384
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