• To: 'Rick Marshall' <rjm@z...>
• Subject: RE: Meta-somethingorother (was the semantic web mega-pe rmathread thing)
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <len.bullard@i...>
• Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 16:39:33 -0500
• Cc: 'Miles Sabin' <miles@m...>, xml-dev@l...

But is pretty amazing how far they've gotten with scribing technologies 
and how hard it is to replace them with automation.

I'm not sad about it all.  If I don't get 'outsourced', it appears to 
be a very steady gig. :-)

len

FutureProof: At the end of the automation era, the only people left with
jobs 
were technical writers.  Writing universally acceptable sentences proved to 
be the one truly intractable problem.


From: Rick Marshall [mailto:rjm@z...]

actually, after 30 years i have finally realised that customers only 
want machines to replace pens and journals. the rest is what we'd like 
to do. sadly......

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