It was the summer of 1988 and I had just submitted an article for the AIGA Philadelphia News, titled “I just don’t want be left behind.” The focus of the article was about my angst on adopting this new computer-based design production. I was very comfortable with my XActo knives and drawing board, thank you. What do you mean $7500.00 for a new Mac II? Well here I am more than 30 years later writing on a distant cousin of that Mac. The anxiety about getting that first computer has long gone, but alas that nagging feeling about falling behind the never-ending curve of technology still persists.
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