Even before the birth of the digital camera, though, critics were questioning photography, suggesting it actually creates a rhetoric of the real.
(Much has been made about how the death of the letter has coincided with the birth of the digital age, but these writers would have sent graceful e-mails, too).
When Margaret speaks of retiring, she means re-creation, overseeing the birth of a digital enterprise — albeit one small enough to fit into her 700-square-foot headquarters, a short walk down the wooded road.
Mr. Sulzberger's tenure, as publisher of the newspaper and as chairman and chief executive of The New York Times Company, reached across 34 years, from the heyday of postwar America to the twilight of the 20th century, from the era of hot lead and Linotype machines to the birth of the digital world.
However mismanaged it might have been, this was the birth of the digital gaming we know today.
"That year came to be synonymous with the birth of the digital age.
It was an exciting time – the birth of a digital dissent movement, where the definitions and capabilities of hacktivism were being shaped.
Birthers went to all kinds of loony lengths in their quest to undermine Obama's legitimacy — looking for clues in old newspaper clippings from around the world, inspecting official birth certificates for signs of digital manipulation, swapping theories in the darker corners of the Web.
But for some parents, that type of digital birth announcement isn't nearly enough to do their child justice.
Ever since the open-source software movement entered into the public consciousness in the late 90's, we've been awash in prophesies about the end of the Windows era and the birth of a less proprietary digital age.
