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What do think the biggest changes in our trade have been?
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<blockquote data-quote="Doc Hudson" data-source="post: 458751" data-attributes="member: 1607"><p>The two big fundamental changes for every trade and industry brought about by the analogue to digital revolution from around the late 70's to 1980's onward are communications and computing.</p><p></p><p>COMMUNICATIONS: There was an era when to speak to your office, boss, or customers, about a job, you had to go to a physically connected telephone at your place of work, or a phone box in the street. Without this hardwired connection you were running solo, unobtainable, working on a trust and mutual respect principle that you will be at the job at the correct time and work a full day before disappearing off home. Nowadays you can be contacted and your whereabouts traced to within a few yards via your hands-free mobile phone even whilst driving.</p><p></p><p>COMPUTING: There was an era when letters, quotes or invoices had to be typed onto sheets of headed paper by office staff (typically girls). Photocopying was an expensive luxury, 99% of printed documents were in black and white. And not many companies were able to receive an electronic document via a new fancy device called a FAX machine. The thought of running a small business from your home office in the spare bedroom was almost sci-fi in concept. Nowadays anyone with the balls, motivation or guts to give it a go can run a professional looking business from their home with very modest initial cost expenditure.</p><p></p><p>Doc H.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Doc Hudson, post: 458751, member: 1607"] The two big fundamental changes for every trade and industry brought about by the analogue to digital revolution from around the late 70's to 1980's onward are communications and computing. COMMUNICATIONS: There was an era when to speak to your office, boss, or customers, about a job, you had to go to a physically connected telephone at your place of work, or a phone box in the street. Without this hardwired connection you were running solo, unobtainable, working on a trust and mutual respect principle that you will be at the job at the correct time and work a full day before disappearing off home. Nowadays you can be contacted and your whereabouts traced to within a few yards via your hands-free mobile phone even whilst driving. COMPUTING: There was an era when letters, quotes or invoices had to be typed onto sheets of headed paper by office staff (typically girls). Photocopying was an expensive luxury, 99% of printed documents were in black and white. And not many companies were able to receive an electronic document via a new fancy device called a FAX machine. The thought of running a small business from your home office in the spare bedroom was almost sci-fi in concept. Nowadays anyone with the balls, motivation or guts to give it a go can run a professional looking business from their home with very modest initial cost expenditure. Doc H. [/QUOTE]
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