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I learned to touch type when I was 16 so I always used a computer, from when I began practicing in 1983. My older brother told me to take a course in secretarial typing because I would have to type up term paper at university. As a lawyer, I was able to turn work around in a fraction of the time my colleagues could, who relied exclusively on secretaries to type up pleadings. As the profession moved towards computerisation, I watched with amusement as my colleagues were given computers to use and were typing with two fingers. I would ruminate about anyone could think they could travel on the "information superhighway" on which we all now operate without the basic skills necessary to the journey, anymore than they would think they could travel down the M4 on a tricycle.