Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!texbell!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Low Productivity of Knowledge Workers Message-ID: <6314@ficc.uu.net> Date: 26 Sep 89 18:55:53 GMT References: <9676@venera.isi.edu> <189@crucible.UUCP> <291@voa3.UUCP> <9467@attctc.Dallas.TX.US> Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 15 In article <9467@attctc.Dallas.TX.US>, phil@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Phil Meyer) writes: > The problem is this: Professionals view any work done on a keyboard as > clerical, and therefore must be done by clerks. This is the single greatest > factor in keeping the Legal industry five to six years behind the times. This is pretty amazing. The first commercial application for UNIX I ever heard of was office automation in a law firm. Email was prominently mentioned in the article, which I read in 1978 from an aged photocopy, so it was probably 1977 or earlier. Was this a fluke? Anyone have more information on it? -- Peter da Silva, *NIX support guy @ Ferranti International Controls Corporation. Biz: peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. Fun: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com. `-_-' "That is not the Usenet tradition, but it's a solidly-entrenched U delusion now." -- brian@ucsd.Edu (Brian Kantor)