Book description
The Penguin Economist Special reports delve into the most pressing
economic issues of the day: from national and global economies, to the
impact of trade, industry and jobs. Written to be read on a long
commute or in your lunch hour - be better informed in under an hour.
Twenty years ago one gigabyte of memory cost 0,000. Now, a terabyte
(1000 gigabytes) costs a mere 0.
Technology permeates our everyday lives and never more so than with
our portable, personal devices. Businesses are struggling to keep up
with their employees' technological abilities and demands.
In Personal Technology, Martin Giles unpicks the changing
landscape of technology, examining apps, new devices and their effect
on world trade. In the following sections, he explains how technology
and the economy are becoming inextricably linked and how this has
resulted in the birth of the new, digital age.
Beyond the PC
Consumerisation: The power of many
Apps on tap
Personal technology at work: IT's Arab spring
Adapting personal IT for business: The consumer-industrial complex
Droid wars
Ubiquitous computing: Up close
Technology and society: Here comes anyware
Martin Giles joined
The Economist
as a Finance Correspondent in 1988. He then moved to Paris as the
newspaper's European Business Correspondent, before returning to London
as Finance Editor. Mr Giles subsequently spent several years on the
business side of The Economist Group, latterly as Managing Director of
the group's US operations. During this time he was awarded an executive
MBA from The University of Chicago's Booth Graduate School of Business.
In 2008 he returned to the editorial staff of
The Economist
, becoming the newspaper's management correspondent in New York. Since
2009 he has been the US Technology Correspondent in San Francisco. He
has written special reports on numerous subjects during his career at
The Economist
, including European business, international banking, insurance and the
rise of social networks. Mr Giles is a member of the Advisory Council of
The Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) and a
trustee of the Marjorie Deane Financial Journalism Foundation.
