ON JUDGING BITS AND ATOMS

LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION This Reuters article highlights how difficult it is being a shopper of analog goods in terms of trying to discern quality from where things are made: "These days, many fashionistas are still confused over what is real, what is fake, and whether a product's country of origin says anything about its quality. Even a "made in Italy" label no longer guarantees that a bag or a pair of shoes was hand crafted by artisans in a Tuscan workshop. Instead, the bag could hav