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While working for one firm, I decided I needed to move on. I felt my boss did not appreciate what he really had in me and that my skills would not be furthered under his management.I applied for - and got - an interview with a major high-tech computer firm, with the job consisting of being their in-house editor, running two magazines worth 250K. It was a super job, and I was pretty desperate for it.On the day of the interview, I had flu, with a high temperature, and felt awful, but I dosed up on pills and pain-killers and nasal sprays and set off.There were several other candidates in the foyer, besides me. I was first, however. I was grateful for this because I knew the meds would stop working soon and I did not want that to happen during the interview as I worried it might affect my performance.My interviewers consisted of my soon-to-be boss and the HR Director. They both gave me some tea in a plastic cup, invited me to join them at a round table, squeezed into the corner of the HR Director’s office, took off their blazers, rolled up their shirt sleeves, and started interviewing me. This attitude, of getting down to work during the interview, and throwing off formality made a massive difference to how I performed, I feel. I really started to relax while I was talking to them. I often think that interviewers who play social games during the meeting, such as making candidates sit on small, low chairs, are losing out.It was one of the best interviewing experiences I ever had. I had formerly (two jobs before then) worked for James Caan, of Dragons Den fame, who had, in those days, been running a recruitment consultancy called Alexander Mann Associates. This gave me access to all the documents and advisories they used when preparing their candidates to get jobs. I was, among other things, given a master sheet of questions to prepare answers to, which I used for every job after that, and as a result of that (and by taking a physical portfolio into the interview) I pretty much got every job I ever went for.Physical portfolios, as opposed to online ones, really break up the meeting, and if you place it on the interviewer’s desk and move through it, allowing them to handle the pages while you talk, it makes for a completely different, much more engaging form of interview. It never failed me and I have recommended it to many other people since.Cut back to the interview…My portfolio was a large A2 sized, black folder, full of magazines that I had worked on, showing the before and after magazine spreads inside, so that they could see the impact that my work had had on the various publications that I had edited.They showed me their own magazine and asked me to critique it. This was most interesting. They cleared wanted to emulate a working meeting with me to see what I was like to communicate with. I asked for time to view it alone. They went off for another short coffee break. When they came back I gave them feedback as I always do - from the perspective of a typical reader first of all (which is spontaneous, gut-based perspective, and secondly from the perspective of a seasoned professional, which was more technical and concerned itself with pagination, topics, fonts, imagery and so on. I then waded in with some specific recommendations, but said I would need a clear month with carte blanche to interview anyone I wanted in the firm, to identify further changes and create a new outline, before I would be willing to finalise or produce anything (assuming I got the job, that is) to show them.I specialised in turning around the fortunes of publications like this, and was usually able to help a firm bring in more money by making sure we built staff morale, communicated messages to sales people properly and kept everyone well informed of industry news. Customers were also affected by this as the firms often produced a customer facing magazine and one for staff. I rarely found a company exploiting the true potential of the budgets that they spent on these things and saw it as my job to make sure they did. My particular forte lay in reformulating the pagination, brainstorming unusual news items to keep readers alert and in re-formulating the brief to designers to upgrade the look of the piece.I wanted whatever I produced to be visually arresting, intellectually unforgettable and something that stimulated people to get involved. I relied on others to feed me top stories in a timely fashion and so this sort of thing really mattered.At some point, while taking them through all this, we stopped for another break. They had a huddle in the corner of the room and one of them left the room, returning a short time later. I did not know it, but he went to tell all the other candidates to leave as they had found the person they wanted.They did not tell me this.The interview lasted another hour. I left, feeling exhausted as I climbed down from the nerves and adrenaline rush, and travelled home, which took about 90 minutes on the train and a tube trip. I felt I had done my very best.As I got to my door, a motorcycle courier arrived, asked if I was Ingrid Burling, and then handed me an envelope, asking me to sign for it. When I opened it, I found it was an invitation to ‘the final interview’. I was astonished. They had got their secretary to type it and then sent it out as I travelled home. Amazing.I did not understand the significance of the wording in in, and so, despite them hinting I had already got the job, went up there still firmly of the mindset that I had to go in with all guns blazing. I was convinced there was going to be another candidate, who might pip me to the post and was determined to get them out of the running. I wore a black, not blue, suit this time, and put on some gold jewellery. My strongest corporate look. It was to be an interview with my future boss’s boss, and I wanted to argue for a specific salary. I prepared my business case and set off.During the interview, which was strangely relaxed, and not at all the tense thing I thought it would be, my future boss arrived in the room, and together they offered me more money than I asked for. He had apparently told his boss to do that as they felt I was worth more than that. They also offered me a car, and a wonderful perks package. I couldn’t believe it.It was one of the best moments of my professional life.They were a fantastic firm to work for, and I would have walked over hot coals for anyone there, esp my boss, who was like a father figure to me. We had so much fun there and I simply adored how ethical they all were. They (McDonnell Douglas Information Systems) were one of the top three firms I ever worked for. The other two were the then GlaxoWellcome Export division based in Ware, north of London, and Hughes Rediffussion Simulation, an aviation firm. By then I had graduated to working as a Strategic Consultant.Under these auspices, I flourished at the company, but had very little time for some of the extra brainstorming I really wanted to do. I really wanted to push the boat out and find some outstanding topics to write about, things that no-one else had ever covered.They produced large-scale mainframe computers to run many different kinds of business. They built a core, and set various other components around it to formulate the kit to suit whatever business was buying it. It was very clever. They could make a computer for almost any kind of business and some of the installations were astonishing. They usually made twin-hearts so that if one went down, the other would continue running, which meant they had 100% reliability. I challenge you to name another firm that achieves that today. Totally ingenious. They also had a JIT recommended site that was incredible inside and I was very proud to introduce visitors to it. I did my first public speaking at that firm too, which ignited my lifelong interest in it. I learned a huge amount there and have drawn on those lessons every day of my career since.Back to my aspirations as an editor:Every first Saturday of the month I went in, when no-one else was around, and sat quietly and peacefully at my desk, with a flask of coffee, and did research. We had no laptops then, the internet had only just come out and we had only just got our first brick-sized mobile phone for the department. I subsequently put in a mac network, but most of my work was done on the phone and by letter/fax.I wrote a case study about medical pain charting using our computers - a hot topic at the time; I covered the very first tailor made hip joint in surgery using our CADCAM systems (now commonplace); and I was the first to write about the military’s use of the surgery glove for performing surgery remotely on the battle field and when a surgeon could not actually be present. A surgeon would sit in a hospital in the west, using the glove to handle instruments around him and performing movements, and watching the a film of the soldier’s wound that was being filmed in a tented hospital on the battlefield. They would have another glove, linked by computer to the surgeon’s glove, and also performing the surgery, in duplicate, but on the actual soldier. Such things are rarely talked about these days. The public knows hardly anything about this kind of technology. It was so exciting to write about this. It was incredible to stand on the leading edge with the inventors of this technology, even if it was just for a brief spell and in order to interview them.I got three promotions in 15 months - and then they made me redundant. I was one of 1500 people who were asked to leave in a single week. It was like a mass funeral. People were crying as they walked to their offices, all over the building. There were no outreach programs then. I was on my tod.I fought for - and got - three more months, allowing me to put a skeleton, replacement publication in place that they could produce without me.My last day was Xmas Eve that year, 1991. I held it together throughout that entire miserable day - until a humble secretary from around the floor came all the way to my office to shake my hand and say how much she would miss me.Then I lost it and blubbed horribly.The story behind the ‘mass firing’ beggared belief. Never in my born days have I witnessed a more ill advised decision:The Chairman had been ‘befriended’ by Sir John Harvey Jones, unfortunately, and he was entirely taken in by him. The day of that dinner was to mark the company’s demise from a small-but-beautiful boutique firm to one that was hardly spoken about after that and was barely able to survive.JHJ said there was no money in IT manufacturing. The Chairman, hypnotised as he was by JHJ reputation, decided to shut down the famous plant and focus on software. It was the biggest mistake they could ever have made - a once shining light in its field was dimmed forever, and they have since never been able to recover from it.What they should have done is become JIT consultants to other firms in the business worldwide, and invest even more in their consultative strengths - for a very nice fee. When recessions hit, you don’t reduce numbers, you retain your strengths, refocus and prepare yourself for when the order book grows. The biggest assets you have are not your plant, machinery, products or even your staff. It’s WHAT THEY KNOW. Germany gets this - why doesn’t anyone else?If I ever meet that man on the other side, I shall slap him across his deluded face and tell him what I think of him.

“Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge...the knowledge we have lost in information?”- T.S. EliotConsider that until the invention of the printing press by Gutenberg that the dissemination of factual information used and consumable by the common masses was almost non-existent. Copying anything required rooms full of servants copying from a massive text. The only thing worthy of being copied was the Holy Bible and even this, copied by hand, was prone to replication mistakes and misuse. Only 1500 hundred Bibles remain extant from the time before the invention of the printing press and none of them are identical. Many of them are radically different. And to make matters worse they were written in Latin and are one long run on sentence with no punctuation or verse numbers, things that didn’t come into place until AlQuin of York invented them for Charlemagne around 800AD. Education became word-of-mouth, folk wisdom, superstition, craft-centric based on years of apprenticeship. There was no real medicine. There was no real science. “We stand on the shoulders of giants” people said during the Dark Ages as they lived among the moss covered ruins of Rome and were dependent on 1000 year old aqueducts that they didn’t have the skill to build or even repair and yet which they depended upon for their lives.In the book “The Swerve” the story is told of a single book of ancient Greek science, preserved against all probability, is discovered in the middle ages and enters the mainstream, changing the world in a tiny way and making it possible for Western thought to emerge.The invention of movable type by Gutenberg in 1450 made possible reproduction of materials for the first time, making standardized books possible in volume. The first books were of course the Bible, but among the first books was also a volume of pornography. Pornography drives technology even now. Sex sells. It always has. Movable type made it possible for education to arise, for facts to be disseminated, for science to be recorded. Few inventions had more power to change the world than the printing press but it was still, at its best, a blunt instrument. If you go to Mystic, Ct to the old whaling town there, they have a complete original newspaper office and many of the kind of movable presses from the mid 1800s that are not much different from Gutenburg’s machine. One must think of what was necessary to put out any kind of printing in those days. Just to make ink the printer had to collect soot from lamps or grind down charcoal and mix it with linseed oil, a laborious process that took hours and days. And then he or some other craftsman had to carve, by hand, the reverse type that would be used. Once carved the letters could be used over and over but even they had a lifespan. And then the copy had to be set up, in reverse, in a plate, the plate inserted in the press and then the press operated by hand for each individual copy, the same as it was in 1450. Until the 1880s newspapers came out once a week, had fewer than 8 pages and were mostly copies of news that was a week old from the big cities. Law firms and other shops employed dozens of “scrivners”, men whose only job it was, was to copy documents by hand, documents that didn’t rate a printer. If a legal document needed three copies, then the Scrivner would do it, and then a complete review of all three documents had to be made by the principle, a laborious and time consuming process. Scrivners lived an awful and tedious life. In the book “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens, the role of Tom Cratchett, Scrooge’s nephew is as a Scrivner and the classic story “ Bartleby the Scrivner” is about a scrivener who is driven mad by his profession.But the ability to copy and disseminate documents was accelerating, making possible scientific societies, the publication of textbooks and most importantly naval celestial tables and maps which were standardized and used to assist in ship navigation all over the world. Nathaniel Bowditch, an American from Salem, standardized these navigational tables and produced his own book of them in the 1700s which was so accurate and complete that it is still used, unchanged, by mariners to this day, called a “Bowditch”. The ability to navigate ships allowed the dissemination of information much quicker around the world than ever before.The growth of Protestantism and the rise of Universities as the result of the printing press and the availability of the Bible printed in the vernacular instead of in Latin drove the rise of literacy and education. No longer did you have to be a priest or a nobleman to be capable of reading. Even the lowest farmer’s boy could learn enough to run a farm, make change, read a contract, read the Bible, sing from a Hymnal. And with literacy came curiosity and the demand for more, accurate information and the rise of lies, propaganda and misinformation. To this day people still believe something if it is written down. They don’t check the source or veracity - if it is written, then it must be true.The invention of the photo-process increased the rate of delivery of information. Photograpy and the ability to publish photos in papers and books made the growing number of books possible too. This also sparked a rise in the manufacture of paper. Some ancient papermaking works, with huge hammers that beat rags and linen and reeds into pulp are still in operation more than 500 years after their start, in France. The ability to get quality paper was often the determining factor in the run of a book or the edition of a newspaper.In the 1870s came the ability to send photos by wire, the first “fax” machines. Now, pictures of a battlefield or an assassination could be sent instantaneously all over the country over telegraph wires. People now began to demand more information immediately and this sparked the rise of not only the ability to be overwhelmed by information but also by the perspective of the writer. Men in power couldn’t believe one newspaper, they had to buy multiple versions of the same paper from multiple cities and compare what the writers were saying just to get a handle on opinion. Papers earned reputations as worthless scandal sheets or accurate purveyors of the news and newspapers knew their audience and wrote to their level. In England people were judged by the name of the newspaper they read.The invention of the telegraph also lead to the rapid dissemination of information and the careers of many famous men started as being telegraphers, a respected skill that allowed them to “read” the news as it came over the wire in dots and dashes, by hearing alone, as they copied it down. Information from all over the world, both real, fake and imagined, was copied and disseminated. People wanted this information. Legends and myths sprung up as “fact” because of it.And then the greatest invention since the invention of the movable printing press showed up, the invention of the Linotype machine by Merganthaler. This Rube Goldberg machine, invented in the 1880s was the internet of its time and its impact can never be underestimated. It changed the world almost overnight. This machine eliminated the need for hand-set type. It made it possible for pages of information, in different fonts and point sizes to be set in seconds. Jobs that previously took days to set up were now done in minutes - and changes could be made almost instantly. This was the single biggest change in the explosion of information in 400 years. It made it possible not only for daily newspapers to be produced but for multiple editions of that paper each day. Newspapers began putting out three and even four editions a day. Information was suddenly beginning to overwhelm people.At this time, co-incidentally, the rise of William Randolph Hearst collided with the ability to disseminate information. He used his ability to read the public with this desire to sell papers and manipulate power. Whatever he printed was the “truth” and he was responsible, in part for the unnecessary Spanish-American war, stirring up the public with “yellow press” journalism, agitating people and taking advantage of their lack of defenses against the written word and their propensity to believe it. He was said to have said (though it is unproven), “You supply the photographs and I will supply the war” in order to sell papers.When World War 1 came along governments began to insidiously regulate and control the press to lie to the public about their aims, the progress of war, their actions and their motivations. The editor of a popular weekly magazine, “Harper’s Weekly” of the time said, “Truth and falsehood are ordinary terms…there is nothing in our experience to tell us that one is always preferable to the other… there are lifeless truths and vital lies… the force of an idea lies in its inspirational value. It matters very little if it is true or false.”Radio was starting to take off during World War 1. Invented by an Italian, Gugliemo Marconi, wireless was first devised as a way for ships to communicate over short distances. Eventually the United States Navy was tasked with the role of regulating radio, a job it didn’t want but was forced to take on. Out of sheer lack of imagination it gave land-based radio stations the same type of four letter designations as ships. According to the US Navy, land-based radio stations were ships, and this is why in the US we have stations such as “WABC” or the equivalent. By the time the FCC was developed it was too late to change the nomenclature. But radio now provided the ability to stream information right into the homes of people while they were doing chores or for those who couldn’t read. And like the newspaper it became a double-edged sword providing religious claptrap, news, entertainment, propaganda and more. The power of this medium was demonstrated by Dr. John Brinkley, a quack who rose to wealth and power by sewing goat testicles into men’s scrotums to “cure” impotence. He became wealthy enough to build and run his own almost nationwide radio station where he ranted about politics. He was a rabid, right-wing Republican in the same vein as Rush Limbaugh, loved by those with no critical thinking skills and he came within a hairsbreadth of winning the governorship of Kansas (Kansas was as much a mess then as it is now). He showed the world the power of lies and propaganda.Now people were blurring the line between fact and fiction, a trend that goes on to this day. We are both liberated and betrayed by the First Amendment of the US Constitution. There is no requirement to tell the “truth”. Organizations have the right to lie to us in the dissemination of the “news”, whatever “news” may be these days.And then the greatest manipulator of information of all time, Adolf Hitler, came onto the scene, declaring that people were more willing to believe the big lie than the little one. "All this was inspired by the principle - which is quite true in itself - that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie,” said Hitler. And people fell for it. The deluge of information about the perfidy of the Jews, the myth of racial superiority, the unlimited ability of German technological superiority began to mesh with the rise of “super-science” where almost anything was possible - space travel, nuclear power, aliens, laser guns - it was easy to allow yourself to be fooled into believing things. There was a harsh assault on critical thinking skills because anything COULD be true.And at about this time Philo T. Farnsworth was inventing the television in the 1920s, a machine that was destined to changed the world. Everyone could see the potential of the invention but Farnsworth, a brilliant genius, was a man of few resources who came up against RCA who demanded he hand over his patents so they could control television. All through the 1930s they battled. RCA stole his ideas and used their ability to publish his work as theirs. Eventually, Farnsworth would win, but too late, old and broken to enjoy the fruits of his work and RCA would go on to become one of the most powerful purveyors of information in the world. Television, even more so than radio, became the big driver of information and the developer of lies and myth as facts had to be shaped to make programs work in the alotted time frame, one of the biggest still believed by everyone is that the police will not respond to a missing persons report for two days when in fact they respond almost instantly. This lie, created by television to build drama, is firmly believed by the public, an example of the clash of information, knowledge, wisdom and fact. It was so bad that in the 1960s the FCC declared television “a vast wasteland” of vapid, streaming ignorance. Many laws were enacted to insure political balance and fairness, but these were all dismantled by Ronald Reagan to provide the Republicans with a propaganda edge, something that led to right-wing hate radio and even Fox News, which while it tries to call itself “news” bills itself instead as “entertainment”, a distinction that is lost on its largely uneducated and gullible audience and even the current occupant of the White House. Arthur Bullard’s words in 1917 were prescient: “…. there are lifeless truths and vital lies. Their value lies in their ability to inspire.”It would seem that we had reached the pinnacle of information media when a politician of the time named Tip O’neill railed at the loss of critical thinking and said, “You are entitled to your own opinion but you are not entitled to your own facts” because now there was the deliberate blurring of fact and opinion. Even David Bryne of the avant-garde musical group “Talking Heads” sang, “Facts aren’t simple and fact’s aren’t straight. Facts aren’t lazy and facts won’t wait. Facts all come with points of view. Facts won’t do what you want them to.” And in this environment the Internet was borne.Suddenly all of the information of the world was at the fingertips of anyone who wanted to look it up and worse, the belief that “if it’s on a computer it must be true” became the oft-believed variation of the old saw, “if it’s in print it must be true.” But as Mark Twain once opined, “A lie travels halfway around the world before the truth has had a chance to tie its shoes”, the internet not only devastated print media it made it easier to overwhelm people with information: not truth, not facts but information in which lies, truths and half truths were are melded together to form a story that the gullible and the illiterate and the unthinking believe. So powerful is this medium that the Russians used it to throw an American election in 2017 and install their puppet.People are too overwhelmed by too much data in the way that George Orwell predicted in his book “1984” in 1948 and Ray Bradbury predicted in his book “Fahrenheight 451” in the early 1960s. The alarm bells have been going off for quite sometime, but the average person is no longer capable of putting up the fight by critically thinking. They like what they know and they know what they like and they seek the missive that appeals to their worldview: the moon landings were faked; ghosts are real; 9/11 was a false-flag operation; Obama is a Muslim terrorist; there are secret FEMA concentration camps; there are dead aliens at Site 51; vaccinations cause autism; Sandy Hook was a fake event; Global climate change is a hoax; evolution is not real and so on. This trend gets worse when large segments of the government take part in it, presenting falsehoods as “alternate facts” and opinion as truth and religion as science and deriding “fake news”, which does in fact exist, but put out mostly by their propaganda machine. The people have lost their desire and ability to investigate and when their point is conclusively dis-proven they still cling to it out of desperation fearing to drown in a maelstrom of facts, figures and information that they cannot possibly comprehend. Each group has its own “credibility platform” whether it’s Facebook or Fox News or NPR or PBS or CNN or whomever it is they choose to believe as the arbiter of “truth”. Wisdom is truly dying, drowned by information. The saddest thing of all is that the murder of wisdom is a conscience act with malice aforethought, designed to cripple and cow the population.