PositiveThe Wall Street Journal...instead of bludgeoning us with data and diatribes, [Wu] deploys a series of capsule histories ... Though many of Mr. Wu’s characters in the first half of the book are fascinating, to our jaded ears their activities are not particularly shocking ... Mr. Wu is best when analyzing how the internet has taken the attention wars to a new level of sophistication ... Only as his tale concludes does Mr. Wu suggest strategies to thwart this trespass on our senses. His solutions, however, are vague and implausible.
