Parting Perspectives from an Aging Editor (Thanks for All the Fish) (Editorial POSTLUDE‪)‬

Unlike the dolphins in Douglas Adams' Hitchhikers' Guide to the Universe who originally expressed the parenthetical phrase of the title, the editor is not deserting the planet. But becoming a non-editor means a departure from a special world that filled so much time for so long. And after a long academic life including over 35 years of membership in ACCI, one gets a skeptical perspective to hear young scholars confidently predict the future of consumer issues, which in many ways looks like the past. **********