Tim Wu
truism are eat think information expose
“It is an underacknowledged truism that, just as you are what you eat, how and what you think depends on what information you are exposed to.”
― Tim Wu
attention homo distractus
“It is no coincidence that ours is a time afflicted by a widespread sense of attentional crisis, at least in the West - one captured by the phrase ''homo distractus,'' a species of ever shorter attention span known for compulsively checking his devices.”
― Tim Wu
online service free customer product
“When an online service is free, you're not the customer. You're the product.”
― Tim Wu
information industry monopoly cost economy idea censorship
“In an information industry the cost of monopoly must not be measured in dollars alone, but also in its effect on the economy of ideas and images, the restraint of which can ultimately amount to censorship.”
― Tim Wu
modern age really
“Every age thinks it’s the modern age, but this one really is.”
― Tim Wu
commodity information valuable use
“Unlike almost every other commodity, information becomes more valuable the more it is used.”
― Tim Wu
market born free emperor chains freedom private public
"Markets are born free, yet no sooner are they born than some would-be emperor is forging chains. Paradoxically, it sometimes happens that the only way to preserve freedom is through judicious controls on the exercise of private power. If we believe in liberty, it must be freedom from both private and public coercion."
― Tim Wu
world wide web
"Take back the web because it is a situation that really isn't working for anyone."
― Tim Wu
blessing state information empire
"The blessing of the state, implicit or explicit, has been crucial to every twentieth-century information empire."
― Tim Wu