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The Future of the Music Industry in Numbers. Digital Tipping Point in 2014?
“Like a popular rocker who burns out, only to try to stage a comeback a decade later, the sickly music industry will probably never regain its previous vigour. But even modest growth is welcome news for the industry.” Source: The … Continue reading
Posted in Digitization, Forecasts, music, Recorded sound, Tipping points
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Evan Williams: “The Internet makes human desire more easily attainable” (Video)
Evan Williams on the democratization of knowledge and the organizing principle of the Internet. “For the last 15 years, Evan Williams has made it easy for non-geeks to find their voice online. He cofounded Blogger in 1999, Odeo in 2004, Twitter … Continue reading
Posted in Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Information diffusion, Internet, Social Impact, Social Networks, Twitter
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History of Cyber Monday (Infographic)
Source: Infographiclist.com Cyber Monday 2013 was the biggest online shopping day in history, with 18.2% increase in online sales compared to Cyber Monday 2012.
Posted in eCommerce, Infographics, Social Impact
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The crossword puzzle at 100: “A primitive form of mental exercise” according to the New York Times
Today in 1913, journalist Arthur Wynne published the first crossword puzzle in the New York World. According to Jen Carlson, a New York Times editorial in 1924 called it “a primitive form of mental exercise.” See also NPR’s “100 Years Of Solvitude” and the Atlantic’s interview with Deb … Continue reading
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Steve Jobs Introduces Macintosh to BCS, January 1984 (Video)
January 1984: This is a brief clip of Steve Jobs speaking with Boston Computer Society members as he makes the first public showing ever of Macintosh. Steve Wozniak and the designers of Macintosh join with Steve in a very lively … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, Computer history
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The Evolution of the Camera,1888-2013 (Infographic)
Source: Pop Chart Labs HT: Fast Company
Posted in Digitization, Photography
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Robotics and the Birth of Silicon Valley
“The life of William Shockley—Nobel Prize winner, inventor of the junction transistor, and founder of the seminal silicon electronics laboratory—has been well chronicled. But recently, while digging through the Shockley archives at Stanford University, researcher David C. Brock made a … Continue reading
Posted in Automation, Business history, Computer history, Robots, Social Impact
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The Rise of The Machines, 1947
“Three key factors shaped the production operations design of [Ford’s] Cleveland Engine Plant. The first was the decision that Delmar Harder made in April 1947 to organize an Automation Department within his Manufacturing Division. Harder charged the new unit’s engineers … Continue reading
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Most Popular Toys from the Last 50 Years (Infographic)
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The only Roman world map known to have survived antiquity
The so-called “Peutinger Map” is the only Roman world map known to have survived antiquity. Preserved in a single, medieval copy now housed in the Austrian National Library in Vienna, the map stretches from Britain in the west to … Continue reading
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