TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wu,Tim
TI  - The master switch: the rise and fall of information empires 
SN  - 9780307390998 (pbk.)
AV  - HE 7631 W959m 2011
U1  - 384/.041 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - Vintage Books
KW  - Telecommunication
KW  - History
KW  - Information technology
KW  - Mass media
KW  - Telecomunicaciones
KW  - Historia
KW  - Tecnología de la información
KW  - Medios de comunicación
N1  - "Updated and with new material" -- Cover; Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-356) and index; Part I. 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 --  Part II. Beneath the all-seeing eye : The foreign attachment --  The legion of decency --  FM radio --  We now add sight to sound --  Part III. 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 --  Part IV. Reborn without a soul : Turner does television --  Mass production of the spirit --  The return of AT&T --  Part V. The Internet against everyone : A surprising wreck --  Father and son --  The separations principle
ER  -