Driving through the Dutch countryside near the town of Hilversum, I have an overwhelming feeling that the surrounding water will wash out the road, given that my car is almost level with it. So it’s ...
The digitization of freight is a syllable-heavy phrase that gets tossed about in trucking and logistics circles these days. But what does it really mean? And how does the process it defines affect the ...
The biopharma industry spent $90 billion on R&D in 2016, a figure that represents about 20% of total sales. Despite this significant financial investment by the industry and splashy media headlines, ...
The vast majority (87%) of senior business leaders say digitization is a priority at their organization. However, within the environment, health and safety (EHS) industry, many professionals still ...
Putting the world's most advanced scholarly and scientific knowledge on the Internet has been a long-held ambition for Michael Keller, head librarian at Stanford University. Achieving this goal means ...
It’s all there on vinyl, tape, film, and paper–your memories, your creations, your collections–all your media memorabilia. But in analog form, the content is difficult and time-consuming to organize ...
In my Scientific American column this month I mused on the increasing urgency of our need, as a species, to rescue everything we’ve ever recorded on magnetic tape. All those billions of hours of VHS ...
You might still have some old VHS tapes of home movies from the ’80s, but you probably don’t have a machine to play them on. And what about those old Super 8 reels gathering dust in the attic? While ...
A while I back, I wrote a column for TechHive on ways to rent or buy DVDs without Netflix’s now-dead DVD service. So it’s only fitting to now write the opposite story, about how to declutter the ...