Book Launch with Tom Wheeler
Wed, Nov 01
|Alexandria
Join us for a book launch featuring Tom Wheeler, former chairman of the Federal Communication Corporation (FCC) during the Obama administration, who will be launching his new book TECHLASH: Who Makes the Rules in the Digital Gilded Age, (Brookings, October 15, 2023).


Time & Location
Nov 01, 2023, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Alexandria, 201 Prince St, Alexandria, VA 22314, USA
Guests
About the Event
Join us for a book launch featuring Tom Wheeler, former chairman of the Federal Communication Corporation (FCC) during the Obama administration, who will be launching his new book TECHLASH: Who Makes the Rules in the Digital Gilded Age, (Brookings, October 15, 2023). Wheeler will be introduced by Congressman Don Beyer.
In TECHLASH: Who Makes the Rules in the Digital Gilded Age (Wheeler connects the experiences of the late 19th century’s industrial Gilded Age with its echoes in the 21st century digital Gilded Age. In both cases, technology innovation and the great wealth that it created ran up against the public interest and the rights of others. As with the industrial revolution and the Gilded Age that it created, new digital technology has changed commerce and culture, creating great wealth in the process, all while being essentially unsupervised.