I have liked Tim Wu’s writing. The master switch is the second book I finally got to read. The book talks about various monopolies and technological advancements in the information age. The book starts with the early days of innovation from the telephone and stopping at google’s mega empire. I had the 2011 published book; I wonder if he has added recent Facebook emergence and its societal impact in the updated version.
I was surprised to read about AT&T’s innovation, monopoly, and hand-in-glove approach in killing its competitors and how technology like FM had to wait for a decade before going mainstream.
A later section book also takes us to the Hollywood cartel and how few studies with end-to-end integration owned everyone in the industry and ran the show as they wished by creating and destroying anyone.
Anyone who likes little history on our technological advancement should buy/read this book.