gary wrote:I have a long history of watching my accumulated skills become obsolete as technology changed over the years. It seems that only the primary skills of a politician, to dissemble and to obfuscate, are timeless.
I think it's always been this way, at least since the industrial revolution kicked off, each new invention making people's skills obsolete.
My skills are mostly all computer related and I find it hard to keep up with the unstoppable "progress" which makes everything you've learnt about fixing computers irrelevant every 5 years or so when everything changes again.
I think we're edging ever closer to the peak of computer technology, at least in the form that we understand it today, as our boxes full of transistors are now pushing up against fundemental physical limits.
I doubt that will slow the churn of change for the sake of change in the software world of course as companies will always have to find a way to convince you that the software you already have that works fine is no good any more, and you need to buy something new which is completely different but does exactly the same thing