Episode #77: The Napster Effect: Why the Old Guard Always Loses
In this episode of the Stewart Squared podcast, host Stewart Alsop III sits down with his father Stewart Alsop II to explore the evolution of print media and how technology has continuously disrupted the publishing industry. Stewart Alsop II recounts his early experiences with hot type printing at Groton in the 1960s, working at the Pasadena Guardian after graduating college in 1975, and witnessing the revolutionary shift from lead typesetting to digital systems like CompuGraphic and Atex. The conversation traces the technological transformations that reshaped media—from the introduction of…
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