2011
This one really stuck with me--a top level analysis of how changes in media change the culture and change the structure of industry.
The Master Switch
Recommended by Seth Godin (4)
2017
Companies with near monopolies (like telecommunications, Google, Fedex, etc.) begin to lose the listening skills they'd developed and instead respond by expressing their power
2017
If you care about the details, it's worth reading this classic from Tim Wu. There's no debate about how we got here, and not even that much debate about where it leads. It's mostly about who has the power to control the access that you and others have to the information and interactivity that drives our lives.
6th October 2025
Tim Wu wrote about the phone company's desire for a chokepoint years ago, and Rebecca Giblin & Cory Doctorow update this with their brilliant new book on chokepoints.
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