Echoes of the Past: Dispensing in the future

Echoes of the Past this week looks back to 1965 this week with a look at the May 14 edition of Optician.

Looking back at old articles predicting how the profession will change in the future is always interesting and allows people to draw comparison with the industry today.

Dispensing Trends of the Future by PJ White on the dispensing essay prize at the Southern Optical Congress for its broad coverage about how dispensing will change. Materials, new techniques and new machines were predicted to have a significant impact.