The “road travelled”: reflections on the transformation of information exchange in a digital age

EuroIntervention has evolved – gone mostly digital, electronic, online, whatever you choose to call it – and this has been happening little by little over the last few years, something which surprises no one, and that is a bit of the story I want to tell.

Imagine, if you were hearing this announcement 5 or 10 years ago, how this would have been greeted: welcomed perhaps with both dread and derision – the end of print! – but today it is simply the next step in the way we naturally communicate among ourselves, not just in medical publications, but obviously in general. And when I thought of these opening lines last night, I realised that 5 years ago I would have jotted them down on a piece of paper, but instead I typed them on my phone... for that has become our lives: integrated, timely and, mostly, online. Of course, the truth is more nuanced than that. EuroIntervention is still a print journal (as is clearly evidenced by this issue). Meetings in person are still very much in demand... and...