Tim Wu is Professor of Law, Science and Technology at Columbia Law School. He teaches antitrust, copyright, the media industries and communications law. Back in 2003, he coined the term “net neutrality” in his book Network Neutrality Broadband Discrimination. Professor Wu has written many books on technology and communication, including The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age, which warns us about the dangers of excessive corporate and industrial concentration for our economic and political future.

“I think we’re kind of at the end of a forty year experiment of reduced anti-trust laws, (resulting in) unprecedented concentration in the U.S. economy. You’d have to go back to the first Gilded Age to see so many sectors dominated by one firm or two firms. And I think our experiment of un-enforcement has brought many of the dangers we were worried about in the old days, (like) political influence – the fact that Congress will not do so many things that people want.”

Professor Tim Wu, author of “The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age”