The master switch: the rise and fall of information empires

Part I. The rise : The disruptive founder

Radio dreams

Mr. Vail is a big man

The time is not ripe for feature films

Centralize all radio activities

The paramount ideal

Part II. Beneath the all-seeing eye : The foreign attachment

The legion of decency

FM radio

We now add sight to sound

Part III. The rebels, the challengers, and the fall : The right kind of breakup

The radicalism of the Internet revolution

Nixon's cable

Broken Bell

Esperanto for machines

Part IV. Reborn without a soul : Turner does television

Mass production of the spirit

The return of AT&T

Part V. The Internet against everyone : A surprising wreck

Father and son

The separations principle.

The disruptive founder

Radio dreams

Mr. Vail is a big man

The time is not ripe for feature films

Centralize all radio activities

The paramount ideal

The foreign attachment

The legion of decency

FM radio

We now add sight to sound

The right kind of breakup

The radicalism of the Internet revolution

Nixon's cable

Broken bell

Esperanto for machines

Turner does television

Mass production of the spirit

The return of AT&T

A surprising wreck

Father and son

The separations principle.