. Bell telephone magazine . as been calleda silent revolution in design pro-cedures. A new interactive graphicssystem using cathode ray tube dis-plays and a new design tool tocouple drafting boards directly tocomputers are cases in point. As aresult, engineers today are able,with the aid of computers, to handlejobs that are much larger and morecomplex than anything in the past. And in that fact lies the key tothe rationale of the computers rolein the Bell System as it is it be a minicomputer auto-mating repair service or a giantcentral machine processing mas-sive amounts of st
. Bell telephone magazine . as been calleda silent revolution in design pro-cedures. A new interactive graphicssystem using cathode ray tube dis-plays and a new design tool tocouple drafting boards directly tocomputers are cases in point. As aresult, engineers today are able,with the aid of computers, to handlejobs that are much larger and morecomplex than anything in the past. And in that fact lies the key tothe rationale of the computers rolein the Bell System as it is it be a minicomputer auto-mating repair service or a giantcentral machine processing mas-sive amounts of statistical data, thecomputer is there to help liberateits masters from repetitive manualoperations that no longer can copewith the size and diversity of theSystem today. By assigning to com-puters the jobs they can do best, theBell System is freeing people for thejobs they can do best—those thatrequire personal judgment, initia-tive and consideration. Do?? Woodford, Managing Editor EDITORIAL Talking Together in These Times. An article in this magazine alittle more than a year ago discussedthe important difference betweenemployee information and commu-nication—and went so far as tosuggest that it is time to Commu-nicate or Perish. The suspicion that Bell Systempeople, as weve grown in number,have become less inclined or lessable to communicate one with theother on a face-to-face basis, hasbeen lurking in the shadows for along time. That suspicion now hasshifted from circumstantial evi-dence to hard and documented evidence is that all the em-ployee magazines and newspapersand bulletins and CCTV programsand films and telephone-newslines,although necessary and effective intheir place, have not, do not andnever will replace face-to-facecommunications between super-visor and employee as a source ofneeded, trusted and acceptableinformation. And without that needed andtrusted information, people in thisbusiness are neither as inspired toserve nor as happy in serving asthey
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