Roger fidler biography
Roger Fidler (born January 21, , in Mount Vernon, Washington) is an internationally recognized digital news media pioneer and journalist.!
Roger Fidler is an internationally recognized digital news media pioneer and journalist.
Roger Fidler, the man who came up with the tablet before Steve Jobs
These days, being the smartest man in the newspaper business is like being the best checkers player at a chess tournament. But there was a time 20 years ago when the title might have meant something, and it might have applied to Roger Fidler.
I first heard of Fidler back in the early 1990s.
Working for the old Knight-Ridder newspaper chain, Fidler was developing some kind of electronic newspaper. It was a tablet that you plugged into a dock overnight, and while you slept it would be loaded electronically with the news, ready to read with your morning coffee.
I read a number of items on Fidler and his tablet in journalism publications, and I have a hazy memory of possibly even hearing him speak once at a professional conference.
But life went on, and Fidler and his tablet dropped out of sight.
But I never really forgot about him, or the tablet. And when the iPad was launched two years ag