[mlepath]

I have had a somewhat similar journey but 14 years instead of 25 and I always wonder how it would be different today.

We were lucky enough to grow up with the industry and progressively learn more complexity. The kids out of school today are faced with decades worth of complexity on day one on the job.

[mnky9800n]

Physicists have centuries to catch up on just to get started. I think they will survive. The main issue today is more the saturation of useless information in my opinion. There’s little time for your own thoughts as too much time is spent sorting the thoughts others want you to think.

[fallous]

This is true for every field. Everyone has had to step into a field that was built upon the hard-won experience of others and had to get up to speed, and the easiest way to do so is to recognize that fact and take advantage of the wisdom of those who came before.