Quoting A linotype makeup man in David Loeb Weiss 's, Farewell Etaoin Shrdlu, 1978

It’s inevitable that we’re going to go into computers. All the knowledge I’ve acquired over these 26 years is all locked up in a little box now called a computer. I think most jobs are probably going to end up the same way.
— A linotype makeup man in David Loeb Weiss 's, Farewell Etaoin Shrdlu, 1978

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                title: Farewell Etaoin Shrdlu
                speaker: A linotype makeup man
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