I found this through a link from Lloyd Shepherd: Is the pace of change really such a shock?, in which Tom Coates has some things to say about change that have the ring of sanity (if not truth) to them.
There’s this, for instance:
These changes are happening, they’re definitely happening, but they’re happening at a reasonable, comprehendible pace. There are opportunities, of course, and you have to be fast to be the first mover, but you don’t die if you’re not the first mover – you only die if you don’t adapt.
My sense of these media organisations that use this argument of incredibly rapid technology change is that they’re screaming that they’re being pursued by a snail and yet they cannot get away! ‘The snail! The snail!’, they cry. ‘How can we possibly escape!?. The problem being that the snail’s been moving closer for the last twenty years one way or another and they just weren’t paying attention.
The whole piece is worth reading, as is the debate that is unfolding in the comments.
SOURCE: LLOYD SHEPHERD | TAGS: MEDIA, TECHNOLOGY, CHANGE
