Last Days of the Corporate Technophobe

"I thought I was very organized," said Mr. D'Addario, president and chief executive of D'Addario Industries of Bridgeport, Conn., and chairman of Wise Alloys of Muscle Shoals, Ala. "I thought I had it down pat. It was pretty foolish. Not being able to use a computer in the year 2002 is like not being able to read in the 1950's."
Many senior executives — pressed for time, aided by secretaries and reared in the typewriter age — have been slow to adopt technology. But now, sometimes reluctantly, the final holdouts are surrendering to the inevitable. Even the thinning ranks of the computer-illiterate are feeling pressure to log on and catch up.