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A secret background of the industrial wars behind the go up and semester of the 20th century's great information empires - Hollywood, the broadcast systems, and AT&T - requesting one big question: Could history duplicate itself, with one large entity taking control of North american information? Most consider the web Age to be always a instant of unprecedented independence in communications and culture. But as Tim Wu shows, each major new medium, from phone to cable, came on a similar influx of idealistic optimism only to become, eventually, the thing of industrial loan consolidation profoundly influencing how Americans speak. Every once-free and wide open technology was with time centralized and closed down, a huge corporate and business power taking control of the get good at turn. Today, as a similar struggle looms online, significantly the pipeline of all other advertising, the stakes have never been higher. To get chosen: who gets read, and the type of country we live in. Part industrial exposé, part deep breathing on the type of independence of appearance, part battle cry to save the Internet's best features, The Professional Change brings to light an essential drama rife with indelible individuals and reports, heretofore enjoyed out over generations in the shadows of our own national life.
