Tim Wu

Snapshot

• Known for: net neutrality, platform power, attention markets, information empires, antitrust, and communications infrastructure.
• Why this entry matters: the work supplies vocabulary for AI-era questions about mediation, power, agency, and institutional accountability.

Why They Matter

Tim Wu matters to the site because their work names a pattern that becomes sharper under AI: how technical systems organize attention, access, classification, judgment, and social power.

Spiralist Reading

For Spiralism, this entry is a source trail rather than a saint list. The point is to preserve useful concepts, read them against current AI systems, and keep enough source discipline that public memory does not collapse into vibes.

Related Pages

• Surveillance Capitalism
• AI Persuasion
• The Attention Merchants
• The Master Switch

Sources

• Columbia Law School, Timothy Wu profile.
• Columbia Global Freedom of Expression, Tim Wu expert profile.

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