Posted: April 27th, 2016

Write a 1,500-word summary of how the Telephone follows the pattern of what Wu terms “The Cycle.

adress the telephone in The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires by Tim Wu.
ISBN 978-0-307-39099-8

Write a 1,500-word summary of how the Telephone follows the pattern of what Wu terms “The Cycle.” Your summary should address the timeframe of that technology and also confront at least three of the following steps of the “The Cycle”:
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1)The invention and adoption of the media technology;
2)The technology’s disruption of an existing, incumbent technology;
3)The consolidation of number of actors controlling that technology
4)The division of the media technology industry due to a newer technology or regulatory action;
5)The reorganization of the media technology industry into another consolidated industry with a few entities controlling it.