Yes, with the surge in iPads and other tablets, the book industry appears poised for another revolution.
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Certainly the demographics suggest that the time is ripe for evolution, if not revolution in the industry.
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It was asleep as the smart phone revolution overtook the industry and is now suffering the consequences of not responding fast enough with enough horsepower.
These trends and my own personal experiences with the health care industry motivated me to create Revolution Health with the hope that we could help catalyze a shift to a new system driven by consumers, shaped by market forces and powered by technology.
The rise and fall of Napster, the dawn of digital, and the ubiquity of high-standard equipment that allows artists to produce without relying on an established (and expensive) recording studio or major label backing, have led to a revolution in the industry in just a few short decades.
These limitations have now been largely eliminated and a stunningly quick revolution has shaken that industry to its core.
The fact is that Borders has been facing headwinds for quite some time including a rapidly changing book industry, the e-Reader revolution, and a turbulent economy.
So, for example, we've got John Doerr sitting next to me, who has been one of the leading venture capitalists in the innovation economy and helped to spur on the revolution in the computer industry.
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But he foresees a "revolution" in the Indian industry, including an influx of foreign investment in research and clinical testing--if the Indian government implements the patent law.
For him, this is a "once in a century" revolution, where an entire industry hits a fork and is forced to continue on with an entirely new medium.
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But what makes the outlook for any company trying to sell games on the High Street even darker is the fact that the digital revolution is finally sweeping through this industry.
The enterprise has a lot to learn from the revolution that has occurred in the music industry, particularly in how music formats have driven that change.
With choice and flexibility as the new drivers of the television industry, success will hinge on recognizing the consumer revolution and making adjustments to satisfy changing desires, before the consumer changes their viewing platform.
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He has formed the "Third Industrial Revolution Roundtable" with 100 leaders from industry - big names such as IBM and BASF are on the list - as well as governments to further promote the idea.
But around the same time, a revolution was under way in the natural gas industry.
The project, part of the University for Industry, was described by Mr Blunkett as a "revolution in learning".
But it is the car that changed the world, not the upstream industry, which of course expanded enormously to fuel the revolution.
"It's a revolution, " he says of private space industry, adding that in the not-so-distant future, space travel could allow for a trans-Atlantic flight in under 20 minutes.
Increasingly, experts see natural gas as the only economically feasible way to build a new, less-polluting, hydrogen-based economy--a vast market allowing the oil industry a second act at the center of a transportation revolution.
The leading-edge bellwether of this blossoming revolution, the one that portends a trillion dollar industry?
"The way people borrow and read books is undergoing a digital revolution, sweeping both the library world and the publishing industry, " she said.
Another formidable competitor is Swatch Group, better known for the cheap plastic watches that helped save Switzerland when the quartz revolution looked as if it would relocate the entire watch industry to the Far East.
Moreover, before most others, Jay-Z saw that the digital revolution was disrupting the traditional way of doing things in the music industry.
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The revolution in genomics and molecular biology has rescued a segment of the drug industry that for decades was viewed as a low-margin backwater beset by litigation and regulation.
From there beer weathered a Revolution, Prohibition and a right turn at Albuquerque before positively exploding with deregulation of the industry through the early 1980s.
And while industry leaders and politicians are debating the best way to effectively and safely bring the benefits of this revolution to millions of Americans, Damon and his colleagues instead aim to frighten the potential benefactors of this revolution.
So, while - to borrow some words of wisdom from WPP's Martin Sorrell - "we don't know the answer" to how exactly the small screen revolution will change advertising, mobile probably won't radically alter the size of the industry.
The BPI's annual Digital Music Report has been charting the changes in its industry for a while - but the latest edition seems to show that 2012 was the year when the digital revolution finally began to start paying and stop hurting.
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