Listen to the Summary of Michael Fertik & David C. Thompson's The Reputation Economy in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. The start of the digital data revolution can be traced back to the 1890 U. S. Census, when Herman Hollerith, a mining engineer, presented the idea of replacing handwritten records with a punched card. The revelation that a person's life could be summed up on a punched card in many ways foreshadowed the revolution in digital data that would occur a century later...