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6 Traits of Tomorrow’s Blockbuster Digital Technologies

Steve Jobs anticipated many of the features of the digital revolution and built them into the original Macintosh.

f history adheres to timeless long-term trends, Walter Isaacson’s recent book on the digital revolution, , could reveal a lot about the future of our digital age. Last week Isaacson, known for his biographies of Steve Jobs and, as . Here are the biggest lessons that future innovators can learn from the recent past.

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