Waiting until things are obvious sounds like a good strategy-but it is disastrous because it takes years to gain sophistication and fluency with new, powerful ideas. The waiters are always behind, and often are not aware just how far behind they are. We have to help people learn how to imagine better, earlier, and more accurately-and science is by far the best way to boost our abilities to imagine that has ever been devised. Higher education is also not ready for this change to occur. In the last five years, business schools have increased the amount of time students spend on computers, but not in the data mining or research methods that would be required under Gates' Law.
Business schools are happy if students can use a word processor when they get out.
Also, most schools cannot afford the expense of keeping up with the technology changes, just like many companies. Without that technically literate employee emerging from higher education, companies will not be able to employ Gates' Law. We already have lots of data available. Note here that I said data-not information. We will have the newest industrial disease, Data or Information Overload.