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The master switch : the rise and fall of information empires / Tim Wu.
Publication details: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 366 p. : ill. ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780307269935 :
- 0307269930 :
- HE7631 .W8 2010
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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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | HE 7631 .W8 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5019669 |
"This is a Borzoi book" --T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-354) and index.
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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