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NET RESULTS:I LOVE the onward roll of technological innovation - the new machinery, gadgets, applications, capabilities, possibilities. But that progress often also means loss - of crafts, skills, traditions, whole other worlds of activity, writes KARLIN LILLINGTON

I can most readily see change in the area in which I have worked for many years: printing and newspapers. Just about everything these days, from writing a story or taking a picture, to laying out pages and the printing process, is heavily digitised and computerised.