The Internet, you know, 10 or 15 years ago sort of felt like the wild West. You could go out there and do anything and search for things, and, you know, find out about stuff. Now always in the back… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
If you have a disease and suddenly start getting ads for cures for that disease and it's an embarrassing disease - all that kind of stuff it just gets into that zone of autonomy or privacy where you feel a… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
Google has - at least at this point - maintained the line where it keeps organic results separate from the advertisements. But over time… — Tim Wu Copy Share
“JUST WHAT IS GOOGLE? In 1902, the New York Telephone Company opened the world’s first school for “telephone girls.” It was an exclusive institution… — Tim Wu Copy Share
“When we speak of living environments and their effects on us, then, we are often speaking too broadly—of the city, the countryside, and so… — Tim Wu Copy Share
Now, he doesn't control the media, but Donald Trump has been incredibly successful in having his face appear everywhere. You cannot go a day… — Tim Wu Copy Share
“In 1956, two psychologists, Donald Horton and Richard Wohl, would conclude that television’s representation of celebrities was carefully constructed to create an “illusion of… — tim wu Copy Share
“Markets are born free, yet no sooner are they born than some would-be emperor is forging chains. Paradoxically,” — Tim Wu Copy Share
I want to say, however, one thing our media in America has done which didn't happen in other totalitarian states is it has very… — Tim Wu Copy Share
Advertising just keeps getting heavier and heavier and heavier. It doesn't have any natural limit, and we haven't found the place for the limit.… — Tim Wu Copy Share
I wish more of the web had stayed nonprofit. But the advertising model took over and I think has delivered us to where we… — Tim Wu Copy Share
There's always people - it doesn't take many - who have a different psychological makeup than most of us who really get joy out… — Tim Wu Copy Share
In the media, traditional media like print, we had boundaries. You know, we had spaces that ads didn't leave. They stayed where they were… — Tim Wu Copy Share
Google - and some of the other sites, YouTube and, you know - Google has an amazing search engine. The map product is incredible.… — Tim Wu Copy Share
One thing that all the totalitarian states did was make the great leader's face everywhere. — Tim Wu Copy Share
