Economist

Tom Glocer

Hurricane Sandy and the analog-to-digital conversion

Major events that occur in the physical world like Hurricane Sandy often remind me of how far we have come as a society in the great analog-to-digital conversion of our times. While weather forecasting and a significant amount of civil preparedness and communication rely on the internet, the devastating impact of the storm is a [...]

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Tags: Amazon, digital, Hurricane, Sandy, storm

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The iPad and the future of paper

A little more than two years ago I wrote a piece on my blog entitled “iPad and Beyond“, which celebrated the launch of the first iPad. In the post I argued that we should not view iPad v.1 as the final destination, but rather “a trail of breadcrumbs along a path to the future of [...]

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Tags: digital paper, iPad, publishing, technology