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My Analog Life

A former motorcycle messenger rides down memory lane

by Maria Hollenhorst
Jul 12, 2024
“I used up eight of my nine lives in that job,” said Ray Charlton, who drove paperwork around Los Angeles in the 1980s.
A motorcyclist splits lanes as drivers sit in traffic in Southern California in 2024. In the 1980s, motorcycle messengers zoomed around Los Angeles delivering papers.
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My Analog Life

A physician recalls life before electronic medical records

by Maria Hollenhorst
Jul 10, 2024
Technology has allowed Dr. Winnie Lau of Florida to see more patients, but the level of care she's giving is the same, she says.
Before the widespread adoption of electronic medical records, doctors filled out a lot of paperwork in triplicate.
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Browsing the virtual bookshelves

by Molly Wood
Mar 28, 2016
How the New York Public Library is working to digitize its giant collection.
A page from the 1889 manuscript of Theodore Roosevelt's "The Winning of the West," which is in the New York Public Library's digitized (and actual) collection.
The New York Public Library Digital Collections
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