Unclaimed
Tim Wu
Technology & AI
Tim Wu is an American legal scholar whose work examines antitrust, communications policy, and the concentration of power in media and technology industries.
Biography
Timothy Shiou-Ming Wu, born in 1972, is an American legal scholar and professor of law at Columbia University. He also contributes opinion writing to The New York Times. His academic specialties include antitrust, copyright, and telecommunications law. He coined the phrase “network neutrality” in a 2003 law journal article.
Wu served as a senior advisor to the Federal Trade Commission from 2011 to 2012 and as senior enforcement counsel at the New York Office of the Attorney General from 2015 to 2016. From 2021 to 2023, he served as Special Assistant to the President for Technology and Competition Policy, helping author the 2021 Executive Order on Competition. His book The Master Switch examines the history of information industries and the implications of concentrated corporate control.
Wikipedia contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Excerpt, formatting adapted
Books by Tim Wu
The Master Switch
The Master Switch (2010) traces how American telephone, radio, television, and film industries moved from open experimentation toward monopoly or cartel control. It asks whether the internet could follow the same pattern and examines the consequences for free expression and technological innovation.