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Stories about printing, documents, publishing, information systems, and the technologies that changed how knowledge moves.
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Product & TechnologyPublisher’s ecosystem
The office fax machine has been fading for a long time, but fax as a way of sending a signed page never went away. This is the story of how the workflow came loose from its hardware — through the desktop computer, the fax modem, the fax server and internet fax — and of Fax, the HELPERG ecosystem's fax services for the web, iPhone and Android, as one current example of where that separation has led.
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Product & TechnologyPublisher’s ecosystem
Printing did not leave the office. What moved was everything around it: the computer that had to drive the printer, the software that had to translate for it, and finally the place where a document is found, scanned and prepared before it becomes paper.
Digital PublishingPublisher’s ecosystem
A directory, a guidebook and a ranking all try to describe a place. What separates them is not ambition but structure — and the century of publishing technology that made structure possible.
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Each one already has an encyclopedia section behind it. Stories are added as the research warrants, not to fill a grid.
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