Excellent article, Michael. Your perception, forecasting, and assimilation of modern and historical data to identify (and provide avenues of relevancy in) the historically unique trend (debatable*) of technological insurgency in which we now live is enlightening and enlivening. I think many see it happening, but only the smart know what to do about it. Thanks again for putting pen to paper on this subject. I look forward to reading your other pieces!

*some would say both the industrial revolution and the enlightenment, the latter of which coincided with the IR as people learned they could innovate the way they think based on empirical data they previously could not access or read (even if they could access), sort of parallels this insurgency — though in a much more rudimentary way from our modern perspective. It seems the “winners” from that era were the ones who learned how to be persistently comfortable with changes toward improvement as opposed to entrenching themselves in a sort of (anecdotal) “we own the fields and we process tobacco and cotton by hand, and always will” perspective. I’m always doing what I can to keep myself un-entrenched, and your thoughts are helpful. Keep it up, mate!