[Air-l] Timeline of ICT's which have changed the day-to-day Profesionals practices

[Mary-Helen Ward]

To start us off, I'd suggest photocopying and its availablity. I  
don't know when it was first available to the public but when I was  
first a student the late 1960s it cost 11c to photocopy a sheet in  
the university library. Our stipend was $200 a year, so we rarely  
photocopied anything. Two photocopiers in the library of a big  
university, and no queues! We made notes by hand, which meant we had  
to read everything that was recommended in order to do that. and only  
a few carefully chosen articles were recommended.

Oddly, photocopying is still 11 c a sheet in our university library,  
and once again hardly anyone uses it, but that's because almost all  
the articles and book chapters that are recommended, and they are  
often legion, are available online. But perhaps the art of useful  
notetaking is almost dead.

M-H

On 09/10/2006, at 8:09 PM, Jeremy Depauw wrote

> Therefore, my question is: What are, according to you, the ICT's  
> which havehad an influence on professionals pratices and where  
> would you place them ona timeline?