Re: Odd Survey explained

Subject: Re: Odd Survey explained
From: John Glenn <sfarmh1 -at- SCFN -dot- THPL -dot- LIB -dot- FL -dot- US>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 18:02:17 -0400

//
The main SSI business offering, called "Knowledge
Transfer",
is a totally
new concept which makes it possible for the
first time to automatically process "manuals" under
complete computer
control, just like accounting data. //

First, the above is the format as I received it.
Second, the punch line from an o-l-d joke about computers
...
''everything is fully computerized. Nothing can possibly go
wrong go wrong go wrong ...''

Which is about where I think ''computer generated''
documentation stands today. (Right there with the paperless
office - to arrive by 1990, right? - and computers that wil
think for us (AI) due by '92 (19 or 20?).)

john - hand me my quill, Mr. Franklin - glenn
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