{"title":"Tim Wu","description":"\u003cp\u003eExplore the insightful works of Tim Wu, a leading voice on technology, culture, and the future of the internet. Discover his acclaimed books and essays, perfect for readers seeking thoughtful analysis.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"master-switch-book-tim-wu-9780307269935","title":"The Master Switch","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt is easy to forget that every development in the history of the American information industry--from the telephone to radio to film--once existed in an open and chaotic marketplace inhabited by entrepreneurs and utopians, just as the Internet does today. Each of these, however, grew to be dominated by a monopolist or cartel. In this path-breaking audiobook, Tim Wu asks: will the Internet follow the same fate? Could the Web--the entire flow of American information--come to be ruled by a corporate leviathan in possession of the master switch? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnalyzing the strategic maneuvers of today's great information powers--Apple, Google, and an eerily resurgent AT\u0026amp;T--Wu uncovers a time-honored pattern in which invention begets industry and industry begets empire. He shows how a battle royal for the Internet's future is brewing, and this is one war we dare not tune out. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFascinating, balanced, and rigorous--a tour de force. --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEntertaining. There's a sharp insight and a surprising fact on nearly every page of Wu's masterful survey. --\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49524066222353,"sku":"GOR004936120","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50208132235537,"sku":"GOR013889126","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50346777018641,"sku":"CIN0307269930G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50555364114705,"sku":"GOR006956063","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50961825071377,"sku":"CIN0307269930VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":53027207282961,"sku":"CIN0307269930A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0307269930.jpg?v=1751071202"},{"product_id":"attention-merchants-book-tim-wu-9781782394822","title":"The Attention Merchants","description":"Attention merchant: an industrial-scale harvester of human attention. A firm whose business model is the mass capture of attention for resale to advertisers. In nearly every moment of our waking lives, we face a barrage of advertising enticements, branding efforts, sponsored social media, commercials and other efforts to harvest our attention. Over the last century, few times or spaces have remained uncultivated by the 'attention merchants', contributing to the distracted, unfocused tenor of our times. Tim Wu argues that this is not simply the byproduct of recent inventions but the end result of more than a century's growth and expansion in the industries that feed on human attention. From the pre-Madison Avenue birth of advertising to TV's golden age to our present age of radically individualized choices, the business model of 'attention merchants' has always been the same. He describes the revolts that have risen against these relentless attempts to influence our consumption, from the remote control to FDA regulations to Apple's ad-blocking OS. But he makes clear that attention merchants grow ever-new heads, and their means of harvesting our attention have given rise to the defining industries of our time, changing our nature - cognitive, social, and otherwise - in ways unimaginable even a generation ago.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49530655572241,"sku":"GOR008168774","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49961354297617,"sku":"CIN1782394826G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51528496513297,"sku":"GOR010291817","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53404906848529,"sku":"GOR008037705","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1782394826.jpg?v=1769162321"},{"product_id":"master-switch-book-tim-wu-9781848879867","title":"The Master Switch","description":"At the heart of this fascinating book is one of the central questions of our age - rendered more urgent by recent events in the Arab world: is the internet a revolutionary innovation that will overthrow the established order... or will it turn out to have been an unruly technology, that will never escape the controlling embrace of corporations and governments? (Guardian)","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49535930171665,"sku":"GOR004050329","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49571894886673,"sku":"GOR008941277","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49744997810449,"sku":"NGR9781848879867","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50392286232849,"sku":"CIN1848879865VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51303326056721,"sku":"GOR007221211","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51433271066897,"sku":"GOR007007664","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52107129913617,"sku":"CIN1848879865G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1848879865.jpg?v=1758968812"},{"product_id":"attention-merchants-book-tim-wu-9781782394853","title":"The Attention Merchants","description":"Attention merchant: an industrial-scale harvester of human attention. A firm whose business model is the mass capture of attention for resale to advertisers. In nearly every moment of our waking lives, we face a barrage of advertising enticements, branding efforts, sponsored social media, commercials and other efforts to harvest our attention. Over the last century, few times or spaces have remained uncultivated by the 'attention merchants', contributing to the distracted, unfocused tenor of our times. Tim Wu argues that this is not simply the byproduct of recent inventions but the end result of more than a century's growth and expansion in the industries that feed on human attention. From the pre-Madison Avenue birth of advertising to TV's golden age to our present age of radically individualized choices, the business model of 'attention merchants' has always been the same. He describes the revolts that have risen against these relentless attempts to influence our consumption, from the remote control to FDA regulations to Apple's ad-blocking OS. But he makes clear that attention merchants grow ever-new heads, and their means of harvesting our attention have given rise to the defining industries of our time, changing our nature - cognitive, social, and otherwise - in ways unimaginable even a generation ago.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49541563941137,"sku":"GOR009121736","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49543729807633,"sku":"GOR009902193","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49645767426321,"sku":"GOR009136783","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49735366803729,"sku":"NGR9781782394853","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50265235030289,"sku":"CIN1782394850G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51862659432721,"sku":"GOR010631567","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52996786290961,"sku":"CIN1782394850VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1782394850.jpg?v=1759232055"},{"product_id":"curse-of-bigness-book-tim-wu-9780999745465","title":"The Curse of Bigness","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the man who coined the term \"net neutrality,\" comes a warning about the dangers of excessive corporate and industrial concentration for our economic and political future.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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. History suggests that tolerance of inequality and failing to control excessive corporate power may prompt the rise of populism, nationalism, extremist politicians, and fascist regimes. In short, as Wu warns, we are in grave danger of repeating the signature errors of the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe Curse of Bigness\u003c\/i\u003e, Tim Wu explains how figures like Brandeis and Theodore Roosevelt first confronted the democratic threats posed by the great trusts of the Gilded Age--but the lessons of the Progressive Era were forgotten in the last 40 years. He calls for recovering the lost tenets of the trustbusting age as part of a broader revival of American progressive ideas as we confront the fallout of persistent and extreme economic inequality.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49543498924305,"sku":"GOR009720579","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49560684593425,"sku":"GOR011794750","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50007216193809,"sku":"CIN0999745468VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50125161791761,"sku":"CIN0999745468A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51012193190161,"sku":"NIN9780999745465","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52106054435089,"sku":"CIN0999745468G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53592581570833,"sku":"GOR013163312","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0999745468.jpg?v=1751427119"},{"product_id":"attention-merchants-book-tim-wu-9780385352017","title":"The Attention Merchants","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom Tim Wu, author of the award-winning \u003ci\u003eThe Master Switch\u003c\/i\u003e ( a \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFortune\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Feeling attention challenged? Even assaulted? American business depends on it. In nearly every moment of our waking lives, we face a barrage of messaging, advertising enticements, branding, sponsored social media, and other efforts to harvest our attention. Few moments or spaces of our day remain uncultivated by the attention merchants, contributing to the distracted, unfocused tenor of our times. Tim Wu argues that this condition is not simply the byproduct of recent technological innovations but the result of more than a century's growth and expansion in the industries that feed on human attention. From the pre-Madison Avenue birth of advertising to the explosion of the mobile web; from AOL and the invention of email to the attention monopolies of Google and Facebook; from Ed Sullivan to celebrity power brands like Oprah Winfrey, Kim Kardashian and Donald Trump, the basic business model of attention merchants has never changed: free diversion in exchange for a moment of your consideration, sold in turn to the highest-bidding advertiser. Wu describes the revolts that have risen against the relentless siege of our awareness, from the remote control to the creation of public broadcasting to Apple's ad-blocking OS. But he makes clear that attention merchants are always growing new heads, even as their means of getting inside \u003ci\u003eour\u003c\/i\u003e heads are changing our very nature--cognitive, social, political and otherwise--in ways unimaginable even a generation ago. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A startling and sweeping examination of the increasingly ubiquitous commercial effort to capture and commodify our attention...We've become the consumers, the producers, and the content. We are selling ourselves to ourselves.\u003cbr\u003e --Tom Vanderbilt, \u003ci\u003e The New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e An erudite, energizing, outraging, funny and thorough history...A devastating critique of ad tech as it stands today, transforming don't be evil into the surveillance business model in just a few short years. It connects the dots between the sale of advertising inventory in schools to the bizarre ecosystem of trackers, analyzers and machine-learning models that allow the things you look at on the web to look back at you...This stuff is my daily beat, and I learned a lot from \u003ci\u003eAttention Merchants\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e --Cory Doctorow, \u003ci\u003eBoingBoing \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Illuminating. \u003cbr\u003e--Jacob Weisberg, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books \u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49550189035793,"sku":"GOR009460468","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49570523709713,"sku":"GOR012138646","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49943636312337,"sku":"CIN0385352018G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50234227622161,"sku":"CIN0385352018VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50419440386321,"sku":"CIN0385352018A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50899141787921,"sku":"GOR014113706","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0385352018.jpg?v=1751454938"},{"product_id":"attention-merchants-book-tim-wu-9780804170048","title":"The Attention Merchants","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of the award-winning \u003ci\u003eThe Master Switch,\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Dazzling.\" --\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ours is often called an information economy, but at a moment when access to information is virtually unlimited, our attention has become the ultimate commodity. In nearly every moment of our waking lives, we face a barrage of efforts to harvest our attention. This condition is not simply the byproduct of recent technological innovations but the result of more than a century's growth and expansion in the industries that feed on human attention.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Wu's narrative begins in the nineteenth century, when Benjamin Day discovered he could get rich selling newspapers for a penny. Since then, every new medium--from radio to television to Internet companies such as Google and Facebook--has attained commercial viability and immense riches by turning itself into an advertising platform. Since the early days, the basic business model of \"attention merchants\" has never changed: free diversion in exchange for a moment of your time, sold in turn to the highest-bidding advertiser.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Full of lively, unexpected storytelling and piercing insight, \u003ci\u003eThe Attention Merchants\u003c\/i\u003e lays bare the true nature of a ubiquitous reality we can no longer afford to accept at face value.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49575144554769,"sku":"GOR009628357","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49724139569425,"sku":"CIN0804170045VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49745468555537,"sku":"CIN0804170045G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51268611801361,"sku":"NIN9780804170048","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":51770837893393,"sku":"CIN0804170045A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0804170045.jpg?v=1750745612"},{"product_id":"curse-of-bigness-book-tim-wu-9781838950828","title":"The Curse of Bigness","description":"'Timely and important.' -- Joseph E. Stiglitz  'Tim Wu helps shape an urgent new global conversation.' -- Shoshana Zuboff  We're three decades into a global experiment: what happens when the major nations of the world weaken their control on the size and power of corporate giants and allow unrestricted expansion?  In The Curse of Bigness, Tim Wu exposes the threats monopolies pose to economic stability and social freedom around the world. Aided by the globalization of commerce and finance, in recent years we have seen takeovers galore that make a mockery of the ideals of competition and economic freedom. Such is the 'curse of bigness': stifled entrepreneurship, stalled productivity, dominant tech giants like Facebook and Google, and fewer choices for consumers.   Urgent and persuasive, this bold manifesto argues that we need to rediscover the anti-monopoly traditions that brought great peace and prosperity in the past.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49648792895761,"sku":"GOR013263649","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49736068464913,"sku":"NGR9781838950828","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52703392891153,"sku":"GOR012538293","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52987800125713,"sku":"CIN1838950826VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1838950826.jpg?v=1759229365"},{"product_id":"master-switch-book-tim-wu-9780307390998","title":"The Master Switch","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFortune \u003c\/i\u003eBest Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"A must-read for all Americans who want to remain the ones deciding what they can read, watch, and listen to.\" --Arianna Huffington\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Analyzing the strategic maneuvers of today's great information powers--Apple, Google, and an eerily resurgent AT\u0026amp;T--Tim Wu uncovers a time-honored pattern in which invention begets industry and industry begets empire. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e It is easy to forget that every development in the history of the American information industry--from the telephone to radio to film--once existed in an open and chaotic marketplace inhabited by entrepreneurs and utopians, just as the Internet does today. Each of these, however, grew to be dominated by a monopolist or cartel.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In this pathbreaking book, Tim Wu asks: will the Internet follow the same fate? Could the Web--the entire flow of American information--come to be ruled by a corporate leviathan in possession of \"the master switch\"? Here, Tim Wu shows how a battle royale for the Internet's future is brewing, and this is one war we dare not tune out.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49662571020561,"sku":"GOR008230066","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49768337211665,"sku":"CIN0307390993G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49917005234449,"sku":"CIN0307390993A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50325238972689,"sku":"CIN0307390993VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0307390993.jpg?v=1751356824"},{"product_id":"curse-of-bigness-book-tim-wu-9781838950873","title":"The Curse of Bigness","description":"'Timely and important.' -- Joseph E. Stiglitz  'Tim Wu helps shape an urgent new global conversation.' -- Shoshana Zuboff  We're three decades into a global experiment: what happens when the major nations of the world weaken their control on the size and power of corporate giants and allow unrestricted expansion?  In The Curse of Bigness, Tim Wu exposes the threats monopolies pose to economic stability and social freedom around the world. Aided by the globalization of commerce and finance, in recent years we have seen takeovers galore that make a mockery of the ideals of competition and economic freedom. Such is the 'curse of bigness': stifled entrepreneurship, stalled productivity, dominant tech giants like Facebook and Google, and fewer choices for consumers.   Urgent and persuasive, this bold manifesto argues that we need to rediscover the anti-monopoly traditions that brought great peace and prosperity in the past.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49742784364817,"sku":"NGR9781838950873","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50446118158609,"sku":"GOR013630927","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51364350558481,"sku":"GOR013150670","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52607873843473,"sku":"CIN1838950877G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1838950877.jpg?v=1759232206"},{"product_id":"age-of-extraction-book-tim-wu-9781847927118","title":"The Age of Extraction","description":"Today’s dominant tech platforms are the most effective tools ever created for extracting wealth, destabilising the societies they plunder by creating vast inequality. One of the world's pre-eminent anti-monopoly experts explains how and why we must take back control.  'Wu is a titan . . . a must-read' FINANCIAL TIMES  'Cuts to the core' CORY DOCTOROW, author of Enshittification  'Essential' KAREN HAO, author of Age of Empire  Our world is ruled by a handful of tech platforms. They provide great conveniences and entertainment but also stand as some of the most effective instruments of wealth extraction ever invented, seizing immense amounts of money, data and attention from all of us. An economy driven by tech and AI could enrich us, yet it could also marginalize entire industries, widen the wealth gap and foster a two-class nation. As technology evolves and our markets adapt, can society cultivate a better way? Is it possible to balance economic growth and egalitarianism, or are we too late?  Tim Wu, the preeminent scholar and former White House official who coined the phrase ‘net neutrality’, tells the story of an internet that promised widespread wealth and democracy, only to aid the spread of autocracy instead. From generative AI and predictive social data to antitrust and cryptocurrency, Wu frames our current moment within key lessons from recent history. And, perhaps most importantly of all, Wu envisions a future where technological advances serve the greatest possible good – for everyone.  Concise and hopeful, The Age of Extraction offers consequential proposals for reclaiming control to achieve better economic balance and prosperity for all.  'A passionate call for a fairer economy' DARON ACEMOGLU, co-author of Why Nations Fail  'A how-to book on how we can achieve liberty' MATT STOLLER, author of Goliath","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51629330661649,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51629330891025,"sku":"NGR9781847927118","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52628736344337,"sku":"GOR014569304","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52672391348497,"sku":"NLS9781847927118","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52866399142161,"sku":"GOR014649262","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53403391787281,"sku":"GOR014906976","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1847927114.jpg?v=1769686034"},{"product_id":"age-of-extraction-book-tim-wu-9780593321249","title":"The Age of Extraction","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORKER\u003c\/i\u003e BEST BOOK OF 2025 * Tech platforms manipulate attention, extract wealth, and deepen inequality. In this new book, Tim Wu (\u003ci\u003eThe Attention Merchants\u003c\/i\u003e) explains how we can reclaim control and create a balanced economy that works for everyone.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"The magic of Tim Wu's \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Extraction\u003c\/i\u003e is its simplicity. Wu deftly breaks down one of the greatest challenges of our age--the unaccountable power of tech platforms--into such digestible pieces that the solutions for what to do become dead obvious. Essential reading.\"--Karen Hao, author of \u003ci\u003eEmpire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"It's not just in your head--your online life is draining your wallet.... [\u003ci\u003eThe Age of Extraction\u003c\/i\u003e is] a sharp and eye-opening introduction to how we arrived at platform capitalism--where no good click goes unmonetized.\"--\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Our world is dominated by a handful of tech platforms. They provide great conveniences and entertainment, but also stand as some of the most effective instruments of wealth extraction ever invented, seizing immense amounts of money, data, and attention from all of us. An economy driven by digital platforms and AI influence offers the potential to enrich us, and also threatens to marginalize entire industries, widen the wealth gap, and foster a two-class nation. As technology evolves and our markets adapt, can society cultivate a better life for everyone? Is it possible to balance economic growth and egalitarianism, or are we too far gone?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Tim Wu--the preeminent scholar and former White House official who coined the phrase \"net neutrality\"--explores the rise of platform power and details the risks and rewards of working within such systems. \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Extraction\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of an Internet that promised widespread wealth and democracy in the 1990s and 2000s, only to create new economic classes and aid the spread of autocracy instead.  Wu frames our current moment with lessons from recent history--from generative AI and predictive social data to the antimonopoly and crypto movements--and envisions a future where technological advances can serve the greatest possible good. Concise and hopeful, \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Extraction\u003c\/i\u003e offers consequential proposals for taking back control in order to achieve a better economic balance and prosperity for all.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52600287822097,"sku":"NIN9780593321249","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52706084421905,"sku":"CIN0593321243G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52854113960209,"sku":"CIN0593321243VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53564258877713,"sku":"GOR014962621","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780593321249.jpg?v=1761094637"},{"product_id":"liberties-journal-of-culture-and-politics-book-tim-wu-9798985430271","title":"Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiberties\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e is a quarterly journal of serious, stylish, and controversial essays on culture and politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the Winter 2025 issue: \u003cb\u003eTim Wu\u003c\/b\u003e explains why the only way for capitalism to flourish in the future is by decentralizing; \u003cb\u003eMarci Shore\u003c\/b\u003e encounters Ukrainian thinkers under fire; \u003cb\u003eJohn Summers\u003c\/b\u003e tells a true story highly unflattering to God; \u003cb\u003eMichael Ignatieff\u003c\/b\u003e wonders how to lead a liberal life; \u003cb\u003eJames Wolcott\u003c\/b\u003e has his way with the celebrity worship at\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003cb\u003eMaurice Isserman\u003c\/b\u003e warns about the direction of the contemporary American left; \u003cb\u003eSally Satel\u003c\/b\u003e documents the politicization of American psychotherapy; \u003cb\u003eLen Gutkin\u003c\/b\u003e reckons with the cultural cost of secularism; \u003cb\u003eRobert Alter\u003c\/b\u003e unpacks the literary greatness of the book of Job; \u003cb\u003eElena Kagan\u003c\/b\u003e insists on giving William Wyler his due; \u003cb\u003eCeleste Marcus\u003c\/b\u003e takes a hard look at the debate about rape in war; \u003cb\u003eLeon Wieseltier\u003c\/b\u003e ponders the ways in which metaphysics makes life in the physical world bearable; and poetry from\u0026gt;\u003cb\u003eKatha Pollit\u003c\/b\u003e and\u0026gt;\u003cb\u003eYehuda Halevi\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiberties\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e features essays from leading op-ed writers and scholars, award-winning writers, the next generation's rising talent, and poets from around the world--there's a reason why cultural warriors, political leaders, opinion makers, and engaged citizens from across political and cultural spectrum read and cherish\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiberties\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53351524827409,"sku":"GOR014868192","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53352659812625,"sku":"GOR014869455","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53640884027665,"sku":"NLS9798985430271","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9798985430271.jpg?v=1774702896"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/collections\/author-books-by-tim-wu.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}