Dickeson--Here There Be Dragons

Staggering increases are being made in storewidth, with more to come. This explains the bottomless demand for content that drives megamergers and the ridiculous and non-existent price/earnings ratios of the stock market for content providers.

Disruptive and sustaining technologic changes are now a constant in our business and production spectrum. We can't duck the issues, can't stop the world to get off. Who wants to anyway? Experience has taught us that the rising tide does lift the printing boat as well as the economy in general. Peter Drucker observes that printing—ink on paper—is in a great resurgence of books, magazines and catalogs. What happened to the paperless society once predicted? The opposite occurred! Face it. We cannot reliably forecast.