Towards a Busier 1988

This article is being drafted virtually on the eve of the Productronica Show in Munich. By the time it comes to press, the electronics world will have converged on that beautiful city, gone through the expensive and invigorating process of ‘setting up shop’ in the Munich Exhibition grounds and returned home to face the winter and prepare for the rigours of 1988. It would be interesting to calculate the number of millions of passenger miles that will be travelled by the participants in visiting Productronica and the total costs to the electronics world of this massive event. It obviously goes far beyond the superficial costs of all the exhibition stands, hotel bills and air fares which go towards it and must represent a massive investment for the industry worldwide.