Times are a changing
In a few weeks, on the 16th Nov to be precise, I will be giving me professorial speech, which my University, Birmingham City University, Birmingham ask all new professors to do. I plan a Ted style lecture with what I plan on calling 'Times are a changing'. For me, the last few months have been a rolle coaster of change, with my father passing, and having to sort his estate. He was a structural draftsmanship and probably the last of the board users, drawing with pencil and ink, never wanting to move into cad, and probably the reason he retired at 65, together with several new projects starting, and a few papers fleshed out. And change is what he saw coming, but in his wildest dreams, he could not imagine the pace of those changes, and the depth. Just before he died we talked about my life drawing and the cad programs I use, I tried to explain what it meant and some of the developments I would see over the next 25 years as I aproach his age of 89. Some of it was pas...