50th: Long Road to Automation — From High Touch to Hi Tech

Michael Bruno, executive director, Technical Association of the Graphic Arts: By the time another quarter century has passed, we will have seen development of totally computerized systems from original to output, which will mean ink-on-paper, toner-on-paper or display terminal--which itself will not necessarily be a cathode tube, but a flat plasma display. [Kudos to Bruno for mentioning flat displays, but he probably would have been surprised that it took about 20 years for such displays to become commonplace.]