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This is a mistake we make over and over and over.

It practically seems like a type of cognitive bias based around technology.

We use some similar technology from the past to model the implications of the new technology and then willfully ignore the fundamental change brought about by digitization and network connectivity. The strangest thing is everyone understands how powerful network connectivity and digitization are in the abstract but when it comes to the concrete we brush it off like it is not.

This is just like renting The Terminator from the video store in 1989. What could possibly go wrong?



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