I joined ATC at LATCC in June 1971. At Christmas that year I was told by a person who owned some sort of computer company that I was facing an uncertain future as computers would make ATCOS redundant within a few years. I completed 37 years as an ATCO in 2008 & have been retired since then. In those 45 years ATCOS have been, & are still doing, basically the same jobs in the same ways. I know that there has been a gradual introduction of various computer aided tools & systems, but how long will it take before ATCOS really are redundant ? I don't think that I will ever see it !