,
Tim Wu

Tim Wu’s Followers (785)

member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
Dara
723 books | 942 friends

Michael
1,660 books | 401 friends

Karine
500 books | 176 friends

Paul
248 books | 4,657 friends

Christo...
734 books | 95 friends

Benjamin
54 books | 80 friends

Eda
Eda
455 books | 94 friends

Courtney
524 books | 234 friends

More friends…

Tim Wu

Goodreads Author


Website

Twitter

Genre

Member Since
February 2007


Tim Wu is an author, a professor at Columbia Law School, and a contributing writer for the New York Times.. He has written about technology in numerous publications, and coined the phrase "net neutrality." ...more

Average rating: 3.98 · 14,649 ratings · 1,362 reviews · 9 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Master Switch: The Rise...

3.88 avg rating — 7,756 ratings — published 2010 — 42 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
The Attention Merchants: Th...

4.07 avg rating — 4,398 ratings — published 2016 — 30 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
The Curse of Bigness: Antit...

4.15 avg rating — 1,945 ratings — published 2018 — 11 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Who Controls the Internet?:...

3.86 avg rating — 538 ratings — published 2006 — 15 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Which Side of History?: How...

by
3.80 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2020 — 4 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
'Tecnológicas' (Revista nº 27)

by
4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
Tim Wu, On Copyright's Auth...

4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
THE CURSE OF BIGNESS: Suppl...

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
Rate this book
Clear rating
Venturers of Arasys Episode...

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2013
Rate this book
Clear rating
More books by Tim Wu…

Tim’s Recent Updates

Tim Wu rated a book it was amazing
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
Rate this book
Clear rating
Amazingly I find this funnier as an adult than I did as a child
More of Tim's books…
Quotes by Tim Wu  (?)
Quotes are added by the Goodreads community and are not verified by Goodreads. (Learn more)

“As William James observed, we must reflect that, when we reach the end of our days, our life experience will equal what we have paid attention to, whether by choice or default. We are at risk, without quite fully realizing it, of living lives that are less our own than we imagine.”
Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads

“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, The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

“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, The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics posts views last activity  
Around the Year i...: 02. A book by an author whose last name is one syllable 126 584 Nov 26, 2020 06:29PM  
Challenge: 50 Books: Susan T for 2022 15 49 Dec 31, 2022 12:14PM  
“Disaster followed disaster... the hero stuck in there, though. Macon had long ago noticed that all adventure movies had the same moral: Perseverance pays. Just once he'd like to see a hero like himself -- not a quitter, but a man who did face facts and give up gracefully when pushing on was foolish.”
Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist

“...that was Julian for you: reckless. A dashing sailor, a speedy driver, a frequenter of single bars, he was the kind of man who would make a purchase without consulting _Consumer Reports_.”
Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist

“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, The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads

“As William James observed, we must reflect that, when we reach the end of our days, our life experience will equal what we have paid attention to, whether by choice or default. We are at risk, without quite fully realizing it, of living lives that are less our own than we imagine.”
Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads

“As one might gather from a painting of him scowling in a tall stovepipe hat, Day saw himself as a businessman, not a journalist. ''He needed a newspaper not to reform, not to arouse, but to push the printing business of Benjamin H. Day.''
Day's idea was to try selling a paper for a penny - the going price for many everyday items, like soap or brushes. At that price, he felt sure he could capture a much larger audience than his 6-cent rivals. But what made the prospect risky, potentially even suicidal, was that Day would then be selling his paper at a loss. What day was contemplating was a break with the traditional strategy for making profit: selling at a price higher than the cost of production. He would instead rely on a different but historically significant business model: reselling the attention of his audience, or advertising. What Day understood-more firmly, more clearly than anyone before him-was that while his readers may have thought themselves his customers, they were in fact his product.”
Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads

140071 The Reading For Pleasure Book Club — 3760 members — last activity 1 hour, 22 min ago
This is a book club where we will share our current reads in ebooks, regular books, audiobooks, graphic novels and more. This is where we can all shar ...more



No comments have been added yet.