I remember the day a tractor trailer pulled up outside my college newswriting classroom in 1975. The professor escorted us inside and pointed to the rows of PCs sitting atop long tables. What he showed us was the newsroom of the future. “Someday,” he said, “newsrooms will look like this.” Of course, none of us believed him, and we piled back into the classroom and seated ourselves back at our typewriters. The next year, I found myself in a real newsroom, one with yellow copypaper, scissors, and rubber cement. PCs? Yes, they arrived the next year.
Bush’s article brings me back to that innocent time. I wonder if those brought up in today’s fiberoptic world truly realize the miracle of the last quarter century. What saddens me, as I think it did Bush, is the underlying fear of the potential for man to miss his chance for greatness because of his obsession with war.
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