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We live in an age of extreme corporate concentration, in which global industries are controlled by just a few giant firms - big banks, big pharma, and big tech, just to name a few. But concern over what Louis Brandeis called the "curse of bigness" can no longer remain the province of specialist lawyers and economists, for it has spilled over into policy and politics, even threatening democracy itself.  

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.

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".

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.