Я тут последнее время слегка увлеклась Translation Journal
В свежем (октябрь 2008) номере опубликована статья Eileen B. Hennessy, Navigating in a New Era - о том, что сейчас все больше переводят с помощью CAT (computer assisted tools) и все меньше - по старинке, ручками. И старой школы переводчики-де вымирают, как мамонты. Пара абзацев:

Translation-as-writing is not going to vanish from the world of industrial translation. But a large part of the sea-change under way involves the need for professionals involved in translator education to realize and accept its diminishing role. The old-time translator who was able to produce a high-quality translation quickly because terminology, idioms, and sentence structures had become burned into his/her brain through long years of translating "from scratch," and whose fingers flew as rapidly across the keyboard as the words and sentences flashed through his mind, may become something of a rarity. Translators whose activity consists primarily of editing canned text produced from computer storage yards do not have the opportunity to develop that type of ability, and this will need to be taken into consideration in education programs.

Many of the existing training and education programs, even those that include courses in the computer aspects of the profession, appear to be still emphasizing development of translation-as-writing capabilities, perhaps because their directors and instructors are products of the earlier generation of education programs. It would seem, then, that a changing of the educator guard may also be necessary. To paraphrase the old joke: "How many horseshoeing experts are needed to change the tires of a car?"