Test-tube data
Test-tube dataArchives could last for thousands of years when stored in DNA instead of magnetic tapes and hard drives LIKE all the best ideas, this one was born in a pub. Nick Goldman and Ewan Birney of the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) near Cambridge, were pondering what they could do with the torrent of genomic data their research group generates, all of which has to be archived. The v
War of the virtual wallets
War of the virtual walletsVisa, MasterCard and other big payment networks need not be victims in the shift towards digital cash if they play their cards right ANOTHER milestone on the journey towards digital cash was passed on November 13th. That date marked the emergence from beta-testing in America of V.me, a “digital wallet” that holds multiple payment cards in a virtual repository. Instead of
Lost in cyberspace
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
It’s a hit
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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Don’t lie to me, Argentina
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 information
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
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