{
  "id": 14363905,
  "title": "My journey into the digital age",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/14/my-journey-into-the-digital-age",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-14T04:17:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Korea Times",
    "slug": "the-korea-times-koreatimes",
    "url": "https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/opinion/20261014/my-journey-into-the-digital-age"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Throughout the course of my career, spanning several decades, I have witnessed remarkable advancements in information and communication technology. In the 1970s, as an international banker, I relied on a typewriter as my primary tool. All office documents were prepared on the typewriter in English, and any revisions required the entire document to be retyped. Correspondence with bank offices in other countries was conducted via telex. To send a message, I would type it, hand it to a telex operator, who would then convert it into a punched tape and transmit it using a telex machine.\n\nThe landscape changed significantly in the 1980s with the advent of fax machines, which gradually replaced telex. Faxing proved to be particularly advantageous, as it allowed for the instantaneous transmission of entire documents, including signatures, across the globe within minutes. By the early 1990s, personal computers (PCs) started to become commonplace in workplaces. For me, the introduction of computers revolutionized efficiency, making tasks that once took hours a breeze. In the mid-to-late 1990s, the internet emerged as a transformative force, further revolutionizing communication and information exchange.",
  "summary": "I have personally experienced, both at work and in my private life, extraordinary advances in information and communication technology over the past several decades. Encompassed in those decades was a broad range of \"equipment\" or machines, whose benefits I enjoyed along the way. In the 1970s, the typewriter was my main tool as an international banker. I prepared all office documents in English…",
  "key_points": [
    "In the 1970s, relied on typewriter as primary tool for office work",
    "Fax machines in 1980s replaced telex for instant document transmission",
    "Personal computers revolutionized efficiency in workplaces 1990s"
  ],
  "editors_take": "The rapid shift from manual typewriters to instantaneous digital communication illustrates how successive technological waves have fundamentally compressed the time required to manage global professional correspondence and documentation.",
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "The Korea Times",
        "title": "My journey into the digital age",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/14/my-journey-into-the-digital-age-14367155",
        "published": "2026-10-14T04:37:03.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}