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"A new book by designer Manuel Lima, however, shows that data viz's roots go much deeper-some 900 years, at the very least. And calling them "roots" is very much appropriate. "

"In an age in which uninterrupted access to the sum total of human knowledge now seems a given, we're in paradoxical danger of losing a lot of recent history."

"Timeline charts are great for providing quick snapshots of historical events. .. Then it strike me, why not make a visual time line of Microsoft Excel ? So I did that instead."

"When a contractor from America's National Security Agency (NSA) downloaded tens of thousands of top-secret documents from a highly secure Government network, it led to the largest leak of classified information in history - and sparked a fierce debate over privacy, technology and democracy in the post-9/11 world. "

"Dan is an entrepreneur, programmer, and author. He created the first electronic spreadsheet application in 1979 and has been innovating ever since. Dan's talk is a fast moving flurry of images from the early days, growth, and acquisition of VisiCalc and his company, Software Arts, and his experiences - both good and bad - as an entrepreneur 30 years later. "

"Herewith, a look at a dozen tech publications that don't exist anymore (in print form, at least-some are still with us online). All of them were significant in one way or another, all had loyal readerships who mourned their loss, and most were terrific magazines, period. It's in chronological order by the year of founding. "