“Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.”
― Douglas Adams
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
New battery technology stores 2,000 times more energy than normal batteries
Battery technology advances are the new “paper futures” for digital publishing.
Faster, cheaper, longer battery life mean better reading experience and more powerful and versatile mobile devices exponentially expanding mobile digital content adoption as the norm in consumption for books, television and games. ~ eP
- Recharges 1,000 times faster than competing technology.
A new paper in the journal Nature describes lithium ion ‘microbatteries’ which make use of 3D electrodes to store power at densities 2,000 times higher than current technologies, and which can be recharged 1,000 times faster.
The team behind it says the technology can be easily scaled up for mass production.
In principle our technology is scalable all the way up to electronics and vehicles.
“You could replace your car battery with one of our batteries and it would be 10 times smaller, or 10 times more powerful. With that in mind you could jumpstart a car with the battery in your cell phone.”
The turn of the new millennium is when the automation of middle-class information processing tasks really got under way, according to an analysis by the Associated Press based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Between 2000 and 2010, the jobs of 1.1 million secretaries were eliminated, replaced by internet services that made everything from maintaining a calendar to planning trips easier than ever. In the same period, the number of telephone operators dropped by 64%, travel agents by 46% and bookkeepers by 26%. And the US was not a special case. As the AP notes, “Two-thirds of the 7.6 million middle-class jobs that vanished in Europe were the victims of technology, estimates economist Maarten Goos at Belgium’s University of Leuven.” Economist Andrew McAfee, Brynjolfsson’s co-author, has called these displaced people “routine cognitive workers.” Technology, he says, is now smart enough to automate their often repetitive, programmatic tasks. ”We are in a desperate, serious competition with these machines,” concurs Larry Kotlikoff, a professor of economics at Boston University. “It seems like the machines are taking over all possible jobs.” Like farming and factory work before it, the labors of the mind are being colonized by devices and systems. In the early 1800′s, nine out of ten Americans worked in agriculture—now it’s around 2%. At its peak, about a third of the US population was employed in manufacturing—now it’s less than 10%. How many decades until the figures are similar for the information-processing tasks that typify rich countries’ post-industrial economies?
How the internet is making us poor – Quartz (via infoneer-pulse)
If you are in the printing, publishing, bookselling, or library business you may find this hard to refute. ~ eP
Timeline of the History of Printing
From the T’ang Dynasty when the Chinese developed woodblock printing to the cliff-like fall of printing supply sales in 2012 and everything in between. What a long strange trip it’s been…
George Hamilton IV sings about printing presses - ironically brought to you digitally…
The Double-Entendre of Book Printing
“barely shaving any spine, and so keeping much more of that precious gutter space than I’d thought possible.”
“one of my favourite parts of the plant tours … was the bit where one could casually say, ‘And here are the strippers.’”
“an acquiring editor likes to tell folks she started out with a career as a stripper”
“Will anybody admit to having done a grind-and-bind job?”
Best epub double entendre I could come up with, “Enclose the img in a div and then set the width of the div to the desired width, either in pixels or as a percentage.” ~ eP
The color edition of Faulkner’s “The Sound and the Fury” is being published July 6 in a limited edition of 1,480 and is priced at $345. One thousand preordered copies have been sold. - All well and good but isn’t this what ebooks should be about? It shouldn’t take 14 different color inks and several hundred dollars to make Faulkner easier to understand, it should just take a Nook Color.
‘The Sound and the Fury’ as William Faulkner imagined, in color
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