Psycholinguistics in our time

![CDATA[It's hard to deny that some of the most radical changes in our scientific lives over the past decades have been in the mundane trappings of our daily work. The last words on the last page of my - beautifully formatted - PhD thesis (Cutler 1975) are: 'This dissertation was typed by Arlene Walker'. That is how we prepared documents in 1975 - remember? We had someone else do it. Now, I venture to suppose that all chapters in the present book were typed straight into a computer by the authors. Like other branches of science, the practice of psychology thus no longer offers employment to substantial numbers of secretaries. Of course, psychologists are not alone in having their daily existence transformed by technological advance. Perhaps more than others, though, we endure change in the very content of our work as a result of what technology offers; the computer as a model information processor is one obvious case.]]