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... Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Wu, Tim. The master switch : the rise and fall of information empires / Tim ... all, the flow of information isinvisible, and its history lacks the emotional immediacy of, say, the Second World War or the civilrights movement. The fortunes of information empires notwithstanding, ... assault,triggering the next phase of the Cycle. Sometimes this takes the form of a technological innovation thatbreaks through the defenses and becomes the basis of an insurgent industry. The advent of personalcomputing...

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