“Starting with radio, starting with television, we got used to this idea of stuff being free as long as you just watch a few ads.” LongIdeasUsedStuffWatchesTelevisionStartingRadioAdsBeing Free Author:Tim Wu
“When you pay for stuff, it has more of your interests in heart.” HeartStuffInterestPay Author:Tim Wu
“Movies you pay for - well, sometimes they throw some ads at the beginning now - but generally you pay for ads. And that business model - actually, much more ancient, paying for stuff - is much more straightforward in terms of the incentives of the people who are then giving you the stuff.” PeopleGivingWellsSometimesStuffTermPayModelsAncientAdsIncentivesStraightforwardBusiness Models Author:Tim Wu
“You have to think back to the '90s. The computer was this terrible-looking thing that was trying to compete with the television. And it was this idea of email and chat rooms and this kind of stuff that first people - got people there.” PeopleThinkingTryingFirstsKindIdeasStuffRoomsTelevisionTerribleComputerEmail Author:Tim Wu
“Advertising always corrupts the goal of the search engine, which is to try to give you the most important stuff, not the stuff someone paid there to be there.” GivingTryingImportantStuffGoalPaidAdvertisingEnginesSearch Engine Author:Tim Wu
“If you have a disease and suddenly start getting ads for cures for that disease and it's an embarrassing disease - all that kind of stuff it just gets into that zone of autonomy or privacy where you feel a sense of freedom to be who you want to be.” IfsWantFeelsKindStuffDiseaseCuresPrivacyZoneAdsEmbarrassingAutonomy Author:Tim Wu
“The Internet, you know, 10 or 15 years ago sort of felt like the wild West. You could go out there and do anything and search for things, and, you know, find out about stuff. Now always in the back of my mind, you know, whether it's email or whatever else, it's like, well, is this going to show up somewhere? Is someone going to keep track of this and, you know, know I was searching for - maybe it's an embarrassing disease, maybe it's a weird hobby?” KnowsYearsMindWellsShowsFeltStuffInternetDiseaseYears AgoWestTrackHobbiesEmbarrassingEmailOf My MindWild West Author:Tim Wu
“Net neutrality is the principle that the service providers who control or access, who own the pipes, should not favor some content over another. It's, you know, an even playing field for stuff on the Internet, and, you know, I think it's very important to the medium that it have a rough quality among contents. Everyone has their shot.” ThinkingKnowsShouldImportantStuffQualityPrinciplesFieldsInternetShotsAccessFavorsMediumsRoughPipeNeutralityPlaying FieldsProvidersService ProvidersNet Neutrality Author:Tim Wu
