There is so much going on in the world right now that it’s little wonder that not much attention is being paid to IT.
From climatic perturbations, to daily acts of violence, to heightened geopolitical tensions, infrastructure breakdowns, and unpredictable public policy pronouncements, IT — with the exception of AI — is largely off the radar of most people’s larger discussions of the day. This is a dangerous proposition as we sit at a momentous technology inflection point — Le moment de vérité (moment of truth) in the words of outgoing French Prime Minister François Bayou.
CEOs, senior executives, the public, and print/broadcast/social media outlets are not devoting enough critical thinking time to IT. I conducted a worker-in-the-trenches survey that suggested the general thinking around IT today is, “If it isn’t broken, don’t talk to me about it.”
