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About GilPress

I launched the Big Data conversation; writing, research, marketing services; http://whatsthebigdata.com/ & https://infostory.com/

Mobile Phone Evolution

Posted on May 16, 2015 by GilPress

HT: @ValaAfshar

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First Book Dust Jacket

Posted on May 2, 2015 by GilPress

From Biblio Blog: “Prior to the 1820s, most books were issued as unbound sheets or with disposable board covers. Customers would buy the text-blocks and commission bindings themselves–often to match the other titles in their library. For this reason, dust … Continue reading →

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History of Credit Cards (Video)

Posted on April 27, 2015 by GilPress
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First YouTube Video

Posted on April 23, 2015 by GilPress

First YouTube video, April 23, 2005

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Sales of Analog and Digital Cameras 1933-2014

Posted on April 11, 2015 by GilPress

  92% of smartphone users worldwide say that the camera is the most used feature on their phones. Source: PetaPixel

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The Greatest Storytellers (Infographic)

Posted on April 2, 2015 by GilPress

http://visual.ly/track.php?q=http://visual.ly/worlds-greatest-storytellers?utm_campaign=website&utm_source=sendgrid.com&utm_medium=email&slug=worlds-greatest-storytellers?utm_campaign=website&utm_source=sendgrid.com&utm_medium=email by Raconteur.

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A Midnight Modern Conversation by Hogarth

Posted on March 25, 2015 by GilPress

William Hogarth A Midnight Modern Conversation One of Hogarth’s most popular and pirated early engravings. Its publication did much to spread Hogarth’s fame to the continent. The scene is said to be the interior of the St. John’s Coffee House, Temple … Continue reading →

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Taxonomies of Knowledge, 1751 and 1780

Posted on March 18, 2015 by GilPress

‘Genealogical distribution of the arts and sciences’ by Chrétien Frederic Guillaume Roth from Encyclopédie (1780) A remarkable tree featured as a foldout frontispiece in a later 1780 edition of the French Encyclopédie by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert, … Continue reading →

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The office of the future is coming in dribs and drabs

Posted on March 4, 2015 by GilPress

New kinds of electronic gadgetry for communicating between offices are buzzing on to the market every day. In theory, the so-called office of the future could enable any present-day paper-shuffler to work at home while communicating with his fellow workers … Continue reading →

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Steven Levy in 1984 on the Invention of the Electronic Spreadsheet

Posted on March 3, 2015 by GilPress

As Dan Bricklin remembers it, the idea first came to him in the spring of 1978 while he was sitting in a classroom at the Harvard Business School. It was the kind of idea—so obvious, so right— that made him … Continue reading →

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