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  Craig Murray replied on 10:04 PM on January 16, 2008
  There were much bigger changes... the wheel, fire, melting iron, those were all big. But the modern era has 1,000,000 small changes. Compounded those 1,000,000 changes add up to much more, much faster, than any other change period.
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  Craig Murray replied on 03:04 AM on January 17, 2008
  There were much bigger changes... the wheel, fire, melting iron, those were all big. But the modern era has 1,000,000 small changes. Compounded those 1,000,000 changes add up to much more, much faster, than any other change period.
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Re: How does this era in innovation measure up?

You know there is a conventional wisdom kind of idea that this is like the greatest period of technological change in history. And certainly by some measures, there have been immense changes that are hard to imagine having been matched in the past. As we said earlier in this interview, I don’t know that there’s been a period of time when people have so rapidly gained access to so much information. But there have been other big eras where technology changed very fast. The beginning of the last century when the automobile, the airplane, the telegraph . . . all these things came along very quickly. The telephone. Even further back in history, various developments in medicine, and sanitation, and other things that really had huge outcomes in the way people lived and worked. And what gets me up every morning is that I am living in one of those periods, even if it’s not . . . It doesn’t matter to me that it’s the biggest or the fastest or whatever. It’s one of those periods of amazing technological change. Recorded on: 9/13/07

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Walt Mossberg is the author and creator of the weekly Personal Technology column in The Wall Street Journal, which has appeared every Thursday since 1991.  With Kara Swisher, he currently co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech conference with interviewees such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and many other leading players in the tech and media industries. The gathering is considered one of the leading conferences focused on the convergence of tech and media industries.  In addition to Personal Technology, Mr. Mossberg also writes the Mossberg’s Mailbox column in the Journal and edits the Mossberg Solution column, which is authored by his colleague Katherine Boehret. On television, Mr. Mossberg is a regular technology commentator for the CNBC network, where he appears every Thursday on the mid-day Power Lunch program. He is also a regular contributor to Dow Jones Video on the Web.

In a major 2004 profile of Mr. Mossberg, entitled “”http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.05/mossberg.html">The Kingmaker," Wired Magazine declared: “Few reviewers have held so much power to shape an industry’s successes and failures.” Mr. Mossberg was awarded the 1999 Loeb award for Commentary, the only technology writer to be so honored. In May of 2001, he received an honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of Rhode Island. In May of 2002, he was inducted into the ranks of the Business News Luminaries, the hall of fame for business journalists. That same year, he won the World Technology Award for Media and Journalism.

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