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The Profession's Future Lies in Its Past

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posted on 2023-06-23, 10:52 authored by WN Holmes
The feeling of unreality comes from a belief that the profession one wishes to join mainly involves using computers, and that the industry they expect to be workin in is about as old as they are. The feeling of helplessness comes from the extreme difficulty in getting them to believe anything else. Ignorance of the past makes the future seem merely an enlarement of the present. Professionals must be eager to command the future, not content to surrender to it.

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Publication title

Computer

Volume

34

Issue

10

Article number

10

Number

10

Pagination

118-120

ISSN

0018-9162

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Information and Communication Technology

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Soc

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  • Published

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