This event has a name - the Digital Revolution, as contrasted with the Industrial Revolution. Everyone who was part of the Valley, back in the last half of the last Century, does not doubt it was a revolution - and that it changed the world.
Why all this excitement? Money, that flowed its way in staggering quantities. Because it knew this revolution was making money - in unprecedented amounts.
At the same time, it must be said, that most people were unaware of this, and are still unaware of it. Their world is not changing - and they are doing their best, to keep it from changing.
This has resulted in The Gap between two kinds of people - between those in the know, and those who don't know. - and don't want to know. Two entirely different populations, with different potentials.
The Industrial cohort, is obsessed with finding Oil - the Digital with finding Information. And the first cannot understand the second. And doesn't want to, even as the Computer is pulling the rug out from underneath them.
To put this another way - the Industrial Revolution is ending, and the Digital Revolution is beginning.
This seemed like a good place to end this posting. But lo and behold, How Machine Learning Is Taking Over the Cloud, plopped into my inbox.
Heavens! Just when I thought I had things under control - things take off at warp speed!
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