Whither Intercon?

Perhaps a more accurate title would be "Wither INTERCON" The boom year of the sixties left IEEE ill-prepared of cope with the harsher economics and changing attitudes of the seventies. this fact is manifest in the plan for INTERCON\´74 and in the report of on ad Hoc Committee of IEEE Conference Board entitled "Long Range Plan for INTERCON" (May 7, 1973).