vaplanman

What I find interesting is that each of these comments was posted on the site of an electronic magazine by a craftsman who chose to purchase and use a computer.

Computers, when they were first sold for "personal use" were horrendously expensive. I can still hear the moaning about how an individual would never find a use for a computer in their home. Authors wrote books about how the death of handwritten papers would mean the catastrophic loss of the ability to form a sentence in English, undermine the ability to calculate a simple formula and destroy creative thought.

And yes, some of the concerns did come true, for some people. But we also have the ability get news almost instantaneously. We can ask for woodworking advice from people around the world that we have never, and will never, meet in person. We even have a whole universe of plans, tools and materials that we can purchase online via Paypal or with a credit card.

I, for one, am interested in how true craftsmen will end up using a CNC to produce beautiful and useful items out of wood.