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A letter writer complains that using a computer has changed him from a walking thesaurus into a limping one ("When Synonyms Were My Stock in Trade," Feb. 24).
Back in the late 1950s, the then head of IBM, Thomas J Watson, was rumoured to have predicted a potential world market for "maybe five computers", an estimate that illustrates how radically the role of the computer has changed.
By transforming the structure of jobs, the computer has changed the skills requirements: the knowledge, management and data category of workers are closely associated with the use of computers while for good workers, the relationship is a substitutive one due to expert systems software.
But so many years of keeping my head down and my eyes trained on a BlackBerry (actually, two) or a computer has changed the way I relate to others, to the detriment of all old-fashioned forms of communication.
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