INTRODUCTION                            1   
1 - Ubiquitous Clicks and How It All Started..3

THE TRANSITION                           31
2 - The White House Did Not Call               ..33
3 - Honest Policy Wonks                        ..65
4 - A Taste of Champaign                       ..97
5 - Unleashing Commercial Iconoclasts         ..130

THE BLOSSOMING                              157
6 - How Not to Start a Gold Rush              ..159
7 - Platforms at the Core and Periphery       ..187
8 - Overcoming Two Conundrums                 ..215
9 - Virulent Word of Mouse                    ..243
10- Capital Deepening and Complements         ..272


EXPLORATION AND RENEWAL                        301
11 - Bill Votes with a Veto                   ..303
12 - Internet Exceptionalism Runs Rampant     ..335
13 - The Paradox of the Prevailing View       ..365
14 - The High Cost of a Cheap Lesson in Wireless Access ..392


EPILOGUE                                      417
15 - Enabling Innovation from the Edges  ..419

Acknowledgments  443
References  447
Index 465