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I mean, isn't that what "get on or get left behind" means?
It does not necessarily mean you'll lose your job. Nor does "get on" mean you have to become a specialist on it.
The post picks specifically on things that didn't catch on (or that only catched on for a period of time but were eventually superseeded), but does not apply it to other successful technologies.
Yeah, I realized it suffers from (inverse) survivorship bias, only pointing out the ones that didn't survive.
Didn't one company claim something like "the internet is a fad" or "touchscreen phones are a fad" and went bankrupt/became irrelevant because they didn't adapt?
Blackberry? I was like 10 at the time so this is based off my memory of who had what phone but that seems like the right guess
Yep, I didn't remember well so I didn't know for certain.