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Tag results: Disruption

My Modular Mind

What makes modular designs great for consumers often makes them troublesome for businesses, or why you can’t upgrade an iPhone these days.

Jan 07, 2020

Who’s Who? Who Cares

How the “Who’s Who” concept of reference books devolved from a genuinely useful idea into a very costly form of vanity publishing.

Jul 18, 2017

Who Killed The Encyclopedia?

The fast demise of the physical encyclopedia came about thanks to an upstart publisher, an indecisive giant, and the world’s biggest software company.

Jul 13, 2017

We’re Gunning For IBM

The minicomputer maker Wang Laboratories ran an ad on the Super Bowl long before Apple did. So why did the company and its minicomputers become a footnote?

Feb 14, 2017

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