The Mineral Industry - Present State of the Art

During the past 30 years and largely following the advent and development of computers, an incredible advance has taken place in many sectors of modern technology, for example medicine, dentistry, the automobile industry, the TV and stereo, the appliances industries. This advance has happened so quickly that a wide intellectual gap has developed between the older and younger generations. Many people over 40 cannot believe that a child under 10 understands and operates computers better than they can, if they can at all.