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Is Computer.. a Blessing?

I was writing those thought for my own journal, but then I thought: "Why don't I share them with the peers who are digging into the same trench?" I started my career near end of the last century, prior to the apparition of the famous G3, and when Photoshop3 was a hit. I stepped in a studio where most of the artists learned computer art years after they started their career. Internet resources were still scarce and we had at many occasions to shoot for presentations; make physical mock-ups of our work; present TV commercials on giant black foam boards; team up together for a campaign… our production manager was jumping 10 times between the colour separation house and the printing press to check chromalines and print-proofs… I still feel the glue-spray odors from the overnight " charettes " before any important presentation. We often used to go home at 8am to dress-up decently and head to the presentation. It's not the nostalgia that I want to d