This time around I decided on a guest column. The guest is a 37 years ago younger me, and this post is one that I wrote for Manufacturing Engineering in March of 1988. It was for the last page of the trade magazine, in a regular feature titled “THE LAST WORD”. You can download a pdf of the original from my MIT website, which has a pencil drawn picture of the 33 year old me (over half my life ago). Below is just the text of that piece, with a few places that I have highlighted as bei...
