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Andy McAleer wondered: <<Does anyone have a vision, however sketchy, of
the future of online help?>>
...
<<Is help going to be replaced by some other way of communicating with
users?>>
Geoff Hart responded: <It will all be outsourced to foreign lands, requiring
us to log into ESL Web sites hosted in parts of the world most of us have
never heard of. <g>>
Hee, hee...and we technical writers will evolve to increase our innate
abilities to 'Mind Link' with every user of any software application
produced by our organizations.
In effect, we'll be able to provide that "one piece of information" that
users need to continue their tasks without having to seek it out in help
files or to call support, ever.
Eventually, users [and developers, alike] will become so dependent on this
'Mind Link' that Technical Writers will be the highest paid and most
respected members of any organization....Bwahhh, haaahhhh....hahhhh....We'll
be godlike!!!
;o)
I'm out tomorrow, so today seems like Friday to me...just had to share the
Help vision as it currently exists on my home planet!<g>
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