The Master Switch

“It will possibly turn out, I realize, that only on rare occasions do most or all of the computers in the overall system operate together in an integrated network. It seems to me to be interesting and important, nevertheless, to develop a capability for integrated network operation.”1 (Location 3120)

The broadcasters’ copyright infringement suit went all the way to the Supreme Court, where in Fortnightly Corp. v. United Artists7 in 1968 the Court ruled that the cable operators had done no wrong. (Location 3334)

imagine that the firm had been in the business of delivering pizzas by bicycle, until one day the pizza company bought its own fleet of cars. That is what the telephone and cable companies did to AOL. (Location 4812)