I thought this article was clever and amusing. Moreover, Gene's point that nothing's really changed in terms of page composition is a good one. If it gets you to think then the article is not useless.

Pamela Pfiffner, editor in chief

The text is obviously not written by a person who knows about hot metal - we didn't run out of materials for leading, since we could always use cardboard, different paper stocks, including silk paper.
Strange view - too schematic - on phototype setting, since the systems were made in very different ways. Maybe he doesn't know about them either.