VAPORIZED
Robert Tercek’s book Vaporized is the definitive analysis of the most powerful force that is shaping the 21st century economy: dematerialization. Entire categories of physical products, and the companies that make and sell them, have been replaced by software.
In 2016, Vaporized was celebrated as the International Book of the Year at the Frankfurt Book Fair by the editors of GetAbstract. Tercek’s book was selected as the winner from a field of 10,000 competing business titles.
To introduce the concept of dematerialization, Tercek builds on his personal experience working at the forefront of the digital transformation of the print, music, television and other media industries. Big Media took the first blows dealt by the rise of digital technology. One by one, once-tangible goods such as music CDs and video DVDs were “vaporized”, or replaced by digital data. Soon many other industries followed. Tercek’s book is a chronicle of this transformation.
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US PATENTS
Robert Tercek is the co-author of several patents pertaining to decentralized entertainment granted by the US Patent and Trademark Office, including the following:
11,410,039 Architectures, systems and methods having segregated secure and public functions
11,120,335 Architectures, systems and methods having segregated secure and public functions
11,042,801 Architectures, systems and methods for program defined state system
10,776,696 Architectures, systems and methods having segregated secure and public functions
10,713,564 Architectures, systems and methods for program defined state system
10,489,709 Architectures, systems and methods having segregated secure functions and public functions
10,445,643 Architectures, systems and methods for program defined state system