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Twenty years ago one gigabyte of memory cost $200,000. Now, a terabyte (1000 gigabytes) costs a mere $100.
Technology permeates our everyday lives and never more so than with our portable, personal devices. Businesses are struggling to keep up with their employees' technological abilities and demands.
In Personal Technology, Martin Giles unpicks the changing landscape of technology, examining apps, new devices and their effect on world trade. In the following sections, he explains how technology and the economy are becoming inextricably linked and how this has resulted in the birth of the new, digital age.
Beyond the PC
Consumerisation: The power of many
Apps on tap
Personal technology at work: IT's Arab spring
Adapting personal IT for business: The consumer-industrial complex
Droid wars
Ubiquitous computing: Up close
Technology and society: Here comes anyware

Martin Giles joined The Economist as a Finance Correspondent in 1988. He then moved to Paris as the newspaper's European Business Correspondent, before returning to London as Finance Editor. Mr Giles subsequently spent several years on the business side of The Economist Group, latterly as Managing Director of the group's US operations. During this time he was awarded an executive MBA from The University of Chicago's Booth Graduate School of Business. In 2008 he returned to the editorial staff of The Economist, becoming the newspaper's management correspondent in New York. Since 2009 he has been the US Technology Correspondent in San Francisco. He has written special reports on numerous subjects during his career at The Economist, including European business, international banking, insurance and the rise of social networks. Mr Giles is a member of the Advisory Council of The Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) and a trustee of the Marjorie Deane Financial Journalism Foundation.