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We have entered the era of “Digital Darwinism” in which technology is now moving faster than the ability of many businesses and industries to keep up or survive. Nanography^® can help printers adapt to this new digital era.

When Guy Gecht welcomed guests at the start of this year’s EFI Connect conference in Las Vegas, no one was expecting to see a re-enactment of last year’s fireside chat with Benny Landa, but they got a big surprise! when Benny walked on to the stage during Guy’s opening address.

Nir Zarmi is the COO at Landa Digital Printing and the driving force in implementing Benny’s vision for Nanography^®. To start off 2014, we decided to ask Nir to share his plans and hopes for 2014 and to share some of his insights about Nanography.

My next door neighbour’s child is a seven year old tech-savvy brat. You know the sort. He can reprogramme the operating system of an iPad and is the only one in the house who can operate the catch-up TV. So it was with interest that I saw that he had been given a “John Bull” printing outfit for Christmas. This is a series of small rubber letters, a wooden holder, together with a bottle of ink and a collection of coloured cards.

I don’t know about you, but I am mainly using social media to communicate with and keep an eye on my kids, who are currently scattered around the globe. I have a Twitter account, Facebook page and now a Google+ page and, I spend a few minutes each day seeing what nefarious activities they have gotten up to.

At a recent Smithers Pira conference I was jolted from my post lunch somnolence by someone describing smartphones as “supplementary packaging”. Had I misheard? I mean how can you wrap cornflakes with an iPhone or bottle coke in a Nexus?!

My wife hates flying; she is convinced the plane will crash. In fact she hates it so much that she refuses to do it anymore, which makes getting to our holiday home near Malaga in Spain quite a journey.

Apparently hindsight is a wonderful asset, but not nearly as useful as foresight. I tend to agree – if I could see into the future I would probably have entered one of the Euro lotteries by now and be enjoying some of the fruits of winning. Instead I was asked to give my views recently to an industry think tank, forecasting the future of digital printing in the 21st century. Where would you start?