Stanley Katz has spent nearly half a century in higher education and he has observed the remarkable impact of new technologies on the way humanists work, and is an ardent proponent of the use of IT in teaching.

He contends that "we are too often reacting to IT, rather than thinking creatively about how it might enrich our basic educational mission" and "We should not be planning for IT, but rather considering how IT can serve our educational goals".

This article is a series of valuable personal impressions and experience of IT use and implementation in higher education. It is fascinating as an "oral" history of IT use in American Universities. Some of you may relate to the section on the emergence of the campus "computer czar" or IT Manager.

Katz raises a number of concerns and draws attention to problems that need to be fixed.