For years, I’ve had this dream, an ongoing business fear, and always kept it to myself. It started 40-plus years ago when our then-client, a major Italian manufacturer of ceramic tile materials, insisted we get something called “a fax machine” to save money regarding long phone calls we had regularly with each other. Soon thereafter, we bought our first fax machine, and immediately we were amazed at its efficiency and fascinated with waiting for “what comes next?”
Then, unbelievable computerized products and programs were constantly being introduced and concurrently, making heads spin. Why? Because they seemingly had the wherewithal to offer the user “virtual thinking power.” It was our company’s mantra to always get work done efficiently, professionally, on-point and quickly. Now, we were able to do so with these amazing aids. Suffice to say, we were enthralled working with this new kind of technology and couldn’t wait to forge ahead with it.