Lost in cyberspaceTechnology and society: Amid the explosive growth of digital content on the internet, little thought has been given to preserving things for posterity. Will historians of the future wish that web pages had been preserved more carefully? TRACKING down early web pages can be a problem. The Economist’s first website, for instance, was built by the paper’s California correspondent an
IF THERE is any endeavour whose fruits should be freely available, that endeavour is surely publicly financed science. Morally, taxpayers who wish to should be able to read about it without further expense. And science advances through cross-fertilisation between projects. Barriers to that exchange slow it down. There is a widespread feeling that the journal publishers who have mediated this excha
How deep are your pockets?Businesses are offered software that spots which customers will pay more IN MANY types of face-to-face retailing, it pays to size up your customer and tailor your offering accordingly. In a 2006 study of Fulton fish market in New York, Kathryn Graddy of Brandeis University found that dealers regularly charged Asian buyers less than whites because the Asians had proved, ov
ONLINE Africa is developing even faster than the new highways of offline Africa. Undersea cables reaching Africa on the Atlantic and Indian Ocean coasts, plus innovative mobile-phone providers, have raised internet speeds and slashed prices. In some African markets you can buy a daily dose of internet on a mobile phone for about the cost of a banana (ie, less than ten American cents). This burgeon
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Open sesameWhen research is funded by the taxpayer or by charities, the results should be available to all without charge PUBLISHING obscure academic journals is that rare thing in the media industry: a licence to print money. An annual subscription to Tetrahedron, a chemistry journal, will cost your university library $20,269; a year of the Journal of Mathematical Sciences will set you back $20,1
Don’t lie to me, ArgentinaWhy we are removing a figure from our indicators page IMAGINE a world without statistics. Governments would fumble in the dark, investors would waste money and electorates would struggle to hold their political leaders to account. This is why The Economist publishes more than 1,000 figures each week, on matters such as output, prices and jobs, from a host of countries. We
The price of informationAcademics are starting to boycott a big publisher of journals SOMETIMES it takes but a single pebble to start an avalanche. On January 21st Timothy Gowers, a mathematician at Cambridge University, wrote a blog post outlining the reasons for his longstanding boycott of research journals published by Elsevier. This firm, which is based in the Netherlands, owns more than 2,000
The paradox of prosperityFor China’s rise to continue, the country needs to move away from the model that has served it so well IN THIS issue we launch a weekly section devoted to China. It is the first time since we began our detailed coverage of the United States in 1942 that we have singled out a country in this way. The principal reason is that China is now an economic superpower and is fast b
The value of friendshipFacebook is likely to become a gargantuan company. That will bring risks as well as rewards MARK ZUCKERBERG, Facebook's founder and chief executive, has talked for years about the notion of a “social graph” which connects people to their friends and all of the things they are interested in. By encouraging hundreds of millions of people to share their deeds and reveal their i
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