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The Liberty Times Editorial: Taiwanese take pride in Tim Wu On March 5, the White House announced that Columbia University professor Tim Wu (吳修銘), a second-generation Taiwanese American, was to become US President Joe Biden’s special assistant for technology and competition policy, and would be working for the White House’s National Economic Council. The appointment has attracted a lot of attention. Wu specializes in antitrust, intellectual property and telecommunications law. White H...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Tim Wu, the bard of big tech, has written multiple books about the rise and coming fall of technology monopolies, oligopolies and empires. In The Master Switch, Wu tells the story of how, in the 19 th Century, the existing telegraph empire tried to smother telephone technology in its cradle. He continues with how the ascendant, then established, telephone monopoly destroyed rising competition for decades, with tacit support of the gov...

Tuesday, December 15, 2020 Tim Wu, the bard of big tech, has written multiple books about the rise and coming fall of technology monopolies, oligopolies and empires. In The Master Switch, Wu tells the story of how, in the 19 th Century, the existing telegraph empire tried to smother telephone technology in its cradle. He continues with how the ascendant, then established, telephone monopoly destroyed rising competition for decades, with tacit support of the government. Wu’s latest...

Economy as well as immigration and all of the things like health care that the democrats have wanted to hammer. >> given how consequential this election is going to be, theres threats of new warnings of cyber attacks possibly on u.s. elections database. talk about those outside forces affecting possibly this election? >> weve been in an upgraded level of concern really since 2016. now these reports coming in just validate the concerns that weve had all along that its not just russia potentially....

Defend that for me. >> there are plenty of people that have come before me, and very smart men have written entire book. the master switch, plenty other platforms, just as dekplook tizing. that ended up not to be. >> co-ordered becoming huge concentrated power. >> becoming corporations. so this is not at all guaranteed. precisely. but what is so interesting and were seeing it happen every day now as more people get access and more people get the skills to make the most out of that access, more p...

Again. if salt water compromises outlets you have got to shut off your master switch. number two shut off water main because its freetzing at night. not going to be running water those will start exploding as well. if feel are trying to get ahold of fema. fema people called me and my neighbor and they said we got your name, we have your application. i know you dont have cell service, fine. so we get ahold of them i cant get to you. i said why the roads? they said no we dont have gas. we are stuc...

london. here are the headlines. this just coming in. operations at the shipwrecked costa concordia is been temporarily halted because the ship is shifting. the captain is under house arrest as he awaits possible charges of manslaughter and abandoning ship. meanwhile, divers are working to remove a second data recorder from the abandoned ship. they recovered more bodies, bringing the death toll to 11. the arab league is set to end its mission this week, but anti-government protests sh...