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Brought to you by Penguin. The Age of Extraction explores how today’s dominant tech platforms manipulate attention, extract wealth, and deepen inequality – urging us to recognize their influence and reclaim control to create a balanced economy that works for all. Our world is dominated by a...

Could history repeat itself, with one giant entity taking control of American information? Most consider the Internet Age to be a moment of unprecedented freedom in communications and culture. But as Tim Wu shows, each major new medium, from telephone to cable, arrived on a similar wave of idealistic optimism only to become, eventually, the object of industrial consolidation profoundly affecting how Americans communicate.

From the man who coined the term "net neutrality," author of The Master Switch and The Attention Merchants, comes a warning about the dangers of excessive corporate and industrial concentration for our economic and political future. We live in an age of extreme corporate concentration, in...

Is the Internet erasing national borders? Who's really in control of what's happening on the Net--Internet engineers, rogue programmers, the United Nations, or powerful countries?In this provocative new book, Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu tell the fascinating story of the Internet's challenge to governmental rule in the 1990s, and the ensuing battles with governments around the world.

From Tim Wu, author of the award-winning The Master Switch ( a New Yorker and Fortune Book of the Year) and who coined the term "net neutrality”—a revelatory, ambitious and urgent account of how the capture and re-sale of human attention became the defining industry of our time. Feeling...

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2025 Tech platforms manipulate attention, extract wealth, and deepen inequality. In this new book, Tim Wu (The Attention Merchants) explains how we can reclaim control and create a balanced economy that works for everyone. “The magic of Tim Wu’s The Age of...

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En un momento en que el acceso a la información es prácticamente ilimitado, nuestra atención se ha convertido en un producto fundamental para el mercado. ¿Sentimos que desafían nuestra atención? Los negocios de Occidente dependen de ello. En casi cada momento de nuestras vidas, nos enfrentamos a un aluvión de mensajes, incentivos publicitarios, marcas, redes sociales y otros esfuerzos para captar nuestra atención. Pocos momentos o espacios cotidianos permanecen intactos por los "comerciantes de atención".