That's just the end result of having the world change under your feet, I think. A generation prior had the same comfort with classical ohysics - everyone had a rough layman's understanding of how Newtonian physics and the ICE "worked", at least enough to jump-start a battery and probably change a belt of the mechanic was too spendy. And then along comes Shannon and information theory and the Internet - Holy Shit! - and nothing that's worked their entire lives matters anymore. It's not even table stakes!
Imagine that when you hit 55 or 65 quantum-whatever takes off, and information theory is now the Last Big Thing that everyone thought underpinned the universe, which is now looked at as a quaint period of human advancement, like geocentrism. Nothing you've invested your time in - which were good investments, thatpaid dividends! - is relevant any more. No one but the inventors could have prepared for such a development, and their cohort is barely in their 20s and, you know, "you had to have been there".
That's probably what being Disrupted is like. Is it any surprise that nobody wants to get Disrupted, let alone twice?
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That's just the end result of having the world change under your feet, I think. A generation prior had the same comfort with classical ohysics - everyone had a rough layman's understanding of how Newtonian physics and the ICE "worked", at least enough to jump-start a battery and probably change a belt of the mechanic was too spendy. And then along comes Shannon and information theory and the Internet - Holy Shit! - and nothing that's worked their entire lives matters anymore. It's not even table stakes!
Imagine that when you hit 55 or 65 quantum-whatever takes off, and information theory is now the Last Big Thing that everyone thought underpinned the universe, which is now looked at as a quaint period of human advancement, like geocentrism. Nothing you've invested your time in - which were good investments, thatpaid dividends! - is relevant any more. No one but the inventors could have prepared for such a development, and their cohort is barely in their 20s and, you know, "you had to have been there".
That's probably what being Disrupted is like. Is it any surprise that nobody wants to get Disrupted, let alone twice?
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