You are right, of course: the problem you describe is systemic, and has been a challenge since distance learning was first birthed,
precomputer in the 19th century and postcomputer from the 1960s.
Justice Alito argued that modern surveillance devices allow cheap and easy monitoring of an individual, in comparison to the costly traditional surveillance techniques of the
precomputer era.
Belczynski, "High resolution vehicle simulations using
precomputer coefficients," in Proceedings of the Winter Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, vol.
Especially in the
precomputer era, composers would often replace complex rhythms (time-consuming and artistically stifling in transcription) with a simple sequence of eighth notes; further, transcribers and even composers trusted adept performers to develop, change or interpret these simplified eighth note sequences in style, as they saw fit.
This was true because of the heavy caseload of the court, the peripatetic nature of the work, the obstacles to accessing, using, and communicating information in a
precomputer age, the challenges of learning a new job, and the high standards of the judge himself.
Tech aspects are particularly good: Mark Wendland's mammoth set is all iron bars and
precomputer financial equipment.
In the
precomputer (certainly the pre-desktop-computer) age few of the positions taken were based on sophisticated data driven analysis.
The government's current system for overseeing technologies and their spinoffs was designed to deal with the problems of steam engines in a
precomputer economy-that is, yesterday's world.
She did, becoming the first of Harvard's "women computers" - people who did scientific computations in the
precomputer days - and the first woman astrophysicist.
In pre-internet,
precomputer game days, most young boys yearned for the publication of their favourite weekly comic and another dose of action, sporting prowess and, invariably, good manners.
There may well have been virtues in the way journals were produced in the older,
precomputer age which will be diluted or lost in the profusion of of new technologies.