
JOHN DIEBOLD
COMPUTER VISIONARY JOHN DIEBOLD DEAD
John Diebold, a business visionary who preached computerization during the era of Elvis and Eisenhower as the future of worldwide industry, has died at the age of 79.
Ref. https://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/12/27/obit.di...d.ap/index.html
The man whose name would become synonymous with forward-thinking business consulting, immediately upon his graduation, took up a job as a management consultant. But he would be fired from the same firm three times for what clients took to be an obsession with recommending that businesses use computers to automate processes.
Ref. https://www.tgdaily.com/2005/12/28/john_diebold_obituary/