That Agnew and Palmer's paper should be selected as the best paper of SIGDOC 92 suggests how much the field of documentation has changed in the last ten years. Our concerns fare increasingly centered on the technology of text, rather than on paper texts that support the user of technology. Text has become part of the machine itself, and writers are themselves not so much writers as technicians.
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