Editorial
Marc De Vries (TU Delft - Ethics & Philosophy of Technology, TU Delft - Groep Science & Engineering Education)
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Abstract
In January 2025 it is exactly 25 years ago that I took over the editorship of the International Journal of Technology and Design Education from Edgar Jenkins. A lot has changed since then. In 2000 the journal was still published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. Later they were taken over by Springer. I remember that at first I used to get all articles sent to me by surface mail in threefold with envelopes to forward them to reviewers with envelopes for them to send me their reviews. It took more than a week for the articles to arrive at a reviewer in Australia, for instance, and another week before the reviews were in my office (excluding the time it took for the reviewer to write the review of course). And that was only the beginning of all the sending back and forth of articles, reviews and decision forms all by surface mail. I had a corner in my office with a high pile of articles and forms. What a relief it was when Internet could be used and later the Electronic Manager came. [...]