The telegraph was the Victorian equivalent of today?s `big data?, helping firms to forecast future demand. Analysing such unique historical `experiments? helps understand how firms and markets respond when new technology leads to a dramatic change in the availability of information.

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8 May 2014     Paper Number CEPCP417

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This CentrePiece article is published under the centre's Labour programme.