Somehow, I've managed to maintain my career within the magazine industry for my entire professional life. I originally wandered into the business because I couldn't imagine spending another three to five years in academia (Despite loving academia) and the thought of joining my friends in the consumer product world left me physically and psychically ill.So here I am, watching something I love and still think is incredibly cool transforming and simultaneously wither away all the while adapting, learning and appreciating what appears to be replacing it.I've got no real issues with the digital world. It's fine. Sometimes it's awesomely cool. But I do think that the pace of technological innovations outstrip the pace of both culture and the law, and we often accept these developments without really thinking about the question:"Is this good (and safe, and healthy and wise) for all of us?"Well, is it?
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Somehow, I've managed to maintain my career within the magazine industry for my entire professional life. I originally wandered into the business because I couldn't imagine spending another three to five years in academia (Despite loving academia) and the thought of joining my friends in the consumer product world left me physically and psychically ill.So here I am, watching something I love and still think is incredibly cool transforming and simultaneously wither away all the while adapting, learning and appreciating what appears to be replacing it.I've got no real issues with the digital world. It's fine. Sometimes it's awesomely cool. But I do think that the pace of technological innovations outstrip the pace of both culture and the law, and we often accept these developments without really thinking about the question:"Is this good (and safe, and healthy and wise) for all of us?"Well, is it?