I drove 109 miles criss-crossing the greater Philadelphia region this summer accompanying an ISHN sales rep on customer calls. It’s always good for editors to climb down from their ivory towers and encounter the real world. Especially today. Blink and there’s another disruption of some sort. Change is coming fast and furious.
First off, there’s demographic change. Every customer we called on, save one, was young enough to be my son or daughter. Scary. When I got into this business in the late 1970s I was always the youngest in the room, which seemed filled with men old enough to be my father. Now I’m the reluctant father figure. Us baby boomers haven’t taken kindly to the aging process.