Tim Wu

Google has - at least at this point - maintained the line where it keeps organic results separate from the advertisements. But…

— Tim Wu

When you pay for stuff, it has more of your interests in heart.

— Tim Wu

“JUST WHAT IS GOOGLE? In 1902, the New York Telephone Company opened the world’s first school for “telephone girls.” It was an…

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“When we speak of living environments and their effects on us, then, we are often speaking too broadly—of the city, the countryside,…

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Now, he doesn't control the media, but Donald Trump has been incredibly successful in having his face appear everywhere. You cannot go…

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The best antidote to the disruptive power of innovation is overregulation.

— Tim Wu

“In 1956, two psychologists, Donald Horton and Richard Wohl, would conclude that television’s representation of celebrities was carefully constructed to create an…

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“Markets are born free, yet no sooner are they born than some would-be emperor is forging chains. Paradoxically,”

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I want to say, however, one thing our media in America has done which didn't happen in other totalitarian states is it…

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Advertising just keeps getting heavier and heavier and heavier. It doesn't have any natural limit, and we haven't found the place for…

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I wish more of the web had stayed nonprofit. But the advertising model took over and I think has delivered us to…

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There's always people - it doesn't take many - who have a different psychological makeup than most of us who really get…

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In the media, traditional media like print, we had boundaries. You know, we had spaces that ads didn't leave. They stayed where…

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Google - and some of the other sites, YouTube and, you know - Google has an amazing search engine. The map product…

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One thing that all the totalitarian states did was make the great leader's face everywhere.

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The case for industry breakups comes from Thomas Jefferson's idea that occasional revolutions are important to the health of any system. As…

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I'm afraid when too many people know too much about you, it actually makes us all a lot more boring because you're…

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Nothing, save the hangman's noose, concentrates the mind like piles of cash.

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Markets are born free, yet no sooner are they born than some would-be emperor is forging chains. Paradoxically, it sometimes happens that…

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“Defenders of the prosecution seem to think that anyone charged with a felony must somehow deserve punishment. That idea can only be…

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I don't think anyone at Google feels happy about it, but they've been in some sense, you know, enslaved to their business…

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“In retrospect, the word “remote control” was ultimately a misnomer. What it finally did was to empower the more impulsive circuits of…

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I am the most concerned that we end up in a situation where your - everything is known about you and so…

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Hitler had this understanding that you speak to people's deepest, darkest emotions and give them voice that can be incredibly effective.

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I think you spend 50 percent of your mental energy trying to defeat ad systems.

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