Comments on: Hello, 1998 Calling…. https://smbitjournal.com/2013/03/hello-1998-calling/ The Information Technology Resource for Small Business Sat, 18 Feb 2017 18:12:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: Dave Boring https://smbitjournal.com/2013/03/hello-1998-calling/comment-page-1/#comment-2044 Thu, 07 Mar 2013 23:15:56 +0000 http://www.smbitjournal.com/?p=318#comment-2044 I don’t think this is unique to IT, but is more of an insight to human nature. In the past, technology took decades or centuries to advance, often with minimal advances taking place at any given time. Sure, there were rapid technology advances that occasionally took place, and we recognize those as such (iron age, agriculture age, industrial age, etc.). The advice from your father or grandfather was still applicable to how you performed your work, and the older generations were accepting of the one or two minor technical advances that occurred in their lifetimes.

Today, technical advances are taking place by the boatload, every day. Anybody who begins college learning current computer programming has obsolete skills by the time he or she graduates from college four years later. As IT professionals, we are constantly re-learning our jobs every day. Microsoft releases a new version of Windows and changes the way we interact with our computers; our human nature kicks in and we want to keep doing things the old way. But for the technology to continue to advance, human nature must be overcome so we can best utilize the advances in the technology.

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