<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">One way to may 2022 better:  Consider writing an article for <a href="http://theconversation.com">theconversation.com</a> -- it's a good way to reach much larger audiences with your ideas and knowledge.  If your proposal is accepted, the editors work with you (in my experience, multiple rewrites) and theconversation distributes the final version.  </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Two examples:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><a href="https://theconversation.com/how-the-us-census-led-to-the-first-data-processing-company-125-years-ago-and-kick-started-americas-computing-industry-172850">https://theconversation.com/how-the-us-census-led-to-the-first-data-processing-company-125-years-ago-and-kick-started-americas-computing-industry-172850</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><a href="https://theconversation.com/why-do-people-still-use-fax-machines-109064">https://theconversation.com/why-do-people-still-use-fax-machines-109064</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Thanks for thinking about this - it's good for you, the history of technology, and your institution.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Stay sane and </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:verdana,sans-serif">get a booster</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> (partially for you; more for others),</span><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> </font></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Jonathan</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Jonathan Coopersmith</span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Professor</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Department of History</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Texas A&M University</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">College Station, TX  77843-4236</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">979.739.4708 (cell)</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">979.862.4314 (fax)</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Voting challenges:  </font><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a href="https://theeagle.com/opinion/columnists/texas-should-be-the-model-for-secure-voting/article_4c35a332-e42c-11eb-b0d8-534c59b58ebe.html" target="_blank">https://theeagle.com/opinion/columnists/texas-should-be-the-model-for-secure-voting/article_4c35a332-e42c-11eb-b0d8-534c59b58ebe.html</a></span></div></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#222222"><br></font><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Preserving space archives:  <a href="https://www.toboldlypreserve.space/" target="_blank">https://www.toboldlypreserve.space/</a></font></div><div><br></div><div>International standards battles:  <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/geek-life/history/lets-thwart-this-terrible-idea-for-standards-setting__;!!KwNVnqRv!R4dbJx9DOnSkoiNAwXjHq9sp5vMvdGEVtOMlWJUc6AH7iQiRA7bw1VEUYeo6i2St9sgf$" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/geek-life/history/lets-thwart-this-terrible-idea-for-standards-setting</a></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><i>FAXED.  The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine</i> (Johns Hopkins University Press) </font><br></div><div><br><br><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>