"Old School Article"
Suzette Leeming
suzette.leeming at gmail.com
Wed May 21 12:55:47 MDT 2008
Wasn't that around the time when the promised us the paperless office of the
future? HA!!! They got that wrong too - I'm drowning in paper and my
shredder is quickly becoming my most frequently used home appliance.
This has definitely been a very interesting field to be in since then.
There's nothing like obsolete technology to make us feel old though!
Suzette Leeming
On 5/21/08, Nancy Allison <maker at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> I was once rather pityingly informed, by a know-it-all of the engineering
> variety, that technical writing was a dying profession, because computers
> would soon be writing the documentation.
>
> That was . . . in the early 80's . . . as I recall; the memory has long
> since grown faint.
>
> --Nancy
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