Dreaming Of SEMCI

If I were Rip Van Winkle and awoke after a 22-year slumber (the amount of time I have spent covering the insurance industry), and had opened my March 15, 2004 edition of National Underwriter to the story on page 12, I could be forgiven for thinking that I had only been unconscious for a few days, or a month at most.

Indeed, the image of a man sleeping while time and events passed him by was very much on my mind as I edited that story, headlined: “Agents Urged To Push For 'Real Time.'” The second deck stated the obvious: “Doing transactions 'promptly' online cuts costs, boosts efficiency, helps clients.”

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