The horror of picking tech working in it 10 or 15 years and then it suddenly becoming obsolete or irrelevant. Is something a lot of people can relate to.
We're a new industry. So long as we keep iterating on our tools, this will continue to happen. Obsolescence is - in this case - an indicator of progress.
I don’t subscribe to the notion that we are „new industry”.
It already is well past 80 years and we can easily add computation jobs and record keeping that were there before those were digitalized.
„Centuries” of experience in other fields for me feels like it is exactly the case of that guy who has 20 years of experience in his CV in software development but can’t write fizz buzz if you ask for it.
There is so much knowledge lost and new guys don’t study centuries of history to build a house or become a sales person. You might study battles from century ago but they are mostly irrelevant.
josephg|3 days ago
ozim|2 days ago
It already is well past 80 years and we can easily add computation jobs and record keeping that were there before those were digitalized.
„Centuries” of experience in other fields for me feels like it is exactly the case of that guy who has 20 years of experience in his CV in software development but can’t write fizz buzz if you ask for it.
There is so much knowledge lost and new guys don’t study centuries of history to build a house or become a sales person. You might study battles from century ago but they are mostly irrelevant.