Hello and welcome to Meet the Writers.
I'm Georgina Godwin.
For more than two decades, my guest has been asking a deceptively simple question.
Who really has power?
His work has shaped the way we think about the Internet, monopoly, technology and democracy.
He coined the phrase net neutrality, became one of the leading critics of concentrated
corporate power and later helped shape competition policy from inside the White House.
His new book, The Age of Extraction, argues
that the biggest companies of the digital age no longer simply provide services.
They've become systems for extracting wealth, data and power.
Tim Wu, welcome to Meet the Writers.
Thank you for having me on.
Now, I should just put you into context and tell our listeners how we met.
We were at the Hay Festival and you were on a panel there talking about...
About big tech, basically.
Your moderator was Carole Cadwalladr, who is, of course, the journalist that broke the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
You, very well known for all the reasons I've just said, but also with you, was the ex-head of Meta,
or Facebook, as we call it, of their public engagement, I think she was.
I think global public policy.
So that's Sarah Wynne-Williams, and she was not allowed to speak.