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Aug 15, 2012 07:39AM
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Might i suggest "The Master Switch" by professor Tim Wu of Columbia University. His background is a degree in B.Sc. in biochemistry and his Law degree from Harvard. He was a clerk for Judge Richard Posner on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. And was also former chair of media reform group Free Press, and a writer for Slate Magazine. His book The Master Switch is a good look into how technology and progress has actually been held back by large corporations for the sake of profit. Its a very good read about the history you never knew on the technology of the modern world that could have been out upwards of 100 years earlier if not for "money" over already developed free inovation.
For example the answering machine was actually made in 1934 but selved because ma Bell was worried people wouldn't talk on the phone as long then.

