the programs for formatting the text
Previously you could ask someone to type up first draft, second draft, maybe a third draft, but how far can you drive your secretary, and now they can be wholly in charge of this -- they can change the layout of it as much as the words within it; they can ask colleagues to come in and comment and even add a little bit. Could you revised paragraph ten, Fred? That sort of thing goes on continuously. The thing is moulded under your eyes. And a recent book which has been very popular in the university, Goedel Esher Bach, which is on some of the aspects of artificial intelligence and ideas, has in its preface got a quite a long article on how the author actually organized all of the processes, right through to the final printing of that book, and indeed even wrote the programs for formatting the text, and it had obviously been very stimulating for him. He could organize the final output of everything that he had thought, right from the beginning through to end. Well,