Third!
Goddam, did I guess right or what...

Back in the olden days when I was a draftsman making maps using technical pens and triangles and such, CAD was a very new thing. (By which I mean less than ten years. Surveyors are a conservative bunch.) I had embraced AutoCAD as the way things were going to start heading, and before long was able to completely produce maps electronically without having to hand-draw anything.

My immediate supervisor was very skeptical. I showed him the benefits of it- "Look, if you want to revise the layout of the map to show the road at the bottom instead of making north always up, you just go like this and reprint!"- but he informed me, "We've been doing it this way for thirty years now and I don't see any reason to change."

I stared at him for a moment. "Well shit, then why are we sending out our crews with lasers? Why not use Gunter's chains like George Washington used? For that matter, why send them out in trucks that can break down? Get a horse!"

From what I hear, it took him another five years after that to admit that maybe I was onto something with this new technology...
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 3 Mar 2011, 15:38, Reply)