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by Richard McKinnon at 03:31PM (PST) on December 29, 2005 | Permanent Link | Cosmos

People overestimate the impact of new things in the short term and underestimate their impact in the long term. We live by this motto. A few days talking to non tech people about "things" including business confirms the adage.

"What's a blog, again?", "I don't use email", "Well, I still like to read newspapers", "I don't want people contacting me 24/7", keep popping out. It all adds to a disconnected world where at one end frenetic energy and change is churning business and the way we live. Put kids into this category. They're just grabbing everything new and using it.

In another, put older people, neo-luddites, and the suspicious.

Big gaps are opening up before our eyes. These gaps are widening. It's geographic, certainly. But more. It's a state of mind.

It's when the reluctant and resistant embrace the 'new' that you get the explosion. Hence why Google, Amazon etc now supercharging. But also why blogs are still finding their way.

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