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I started my civil engineering career as a young cadet in a local government drawing office waaayyy back in the early 80's. By then, slide rules had been replaced by HP calculators (I got mine for AU$113 in 1985) and a basic86 based discless XT PC was the cruncher of choice for road design. I even prepared drawings on drafting film using a drafting board/machine and drawing pens.
Five years later, I was designing on a 286 PC.
The great SF books of the "classic" era still had their heroes using slide rules, blueprints and logarithmic tables. Computers with "visiplates" were mentioned but rarely explained.
What a long way we have come.
Now I hear that the technology to replicate what we saw in Avatar with a finger swipe to drag data from a desktop monitor to a tablet is nearly here.
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