As I sit in my air-conditioned house workplace penning this letter on my laptop computer, Spotify offering a soundtrack to maintain me on process, I can’t assist however contemplate the huge variations between my life and people of the MIT graduates who based MIT Expertise Overview and laid out its pages by hand. My life—all of our lives—would amaze Arthur D. Little in numerous methods.
(Not least is that I’m the individual to write down this letter. When MITTR was based, US ladies’s suffrage was nonetheless 20 years sooner or later. There have been ladies on the Institute, however their numbers have been small. At present, it’s my honor to be the CEO and writer of this storied title. And I’m proud to serve at an establishment whose president and provost are each ladies.)
I got here to MIT Expertise Overview to information its digital transformation. But regardless of the tempo of change in these previous 125 years, my obligations usually are not vastly completely different from these of my predecessors. I’m right here to make sure this publication—in all its digital, app-enabled, audio-supporting, livestreaming codecs—carries on. I’ve a deep dedication to its mission of empowering its readers with trusted insights and details about know-how’s potential to alter the world.
Throughout some chapters of its historical past, MIT Expertise Overview served as little greater than an alumni journal; by means of others, it leaned extra closely towards tutorial or journal-style publishing. In the course of the dot-com period, MIT Expertise Overview invested giant sums to extend circulation in pursuit of promoting pages corresponding to the quantity in its counterparts of the time, the Trade Normal, Wired, and Enterprise 2.0.
By way of every of those chapters, I prefer to assume, sure core rules remained constant—specifically, a concentrate on innovation and creativity within the face of recent challenges and alternatives in publishing.
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