Looking Back Moving Forward

Val Wilson Editor-in-Chief

Benjamin Franklin

Since the inception of the office of Notary, 2 millennia ago, successive generations of Notaries have been challenged by and adapted to technological change—from wax tablets to parchment and then to paper as writing surfaces…and reed pens to quills to typewriters and then to computers as writing instruments.

The technological changes discussed in this important issue of The Scrivener are part of the changing continuum. As they have always done, Notaries throughout the common law and civil law worlds adopt those changes and apply them in their work for the good of their clients. ▲