Pursit of the snail

Tom Coates debunks the idea of rapid change taking over the world in this blog.

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 only way that snails catch you up is if you're too self-absorbed to see them coming.