My view is, a lot of change is change for the sake of change.

When you start, you learn what is there and it's all new and exciting. While at 50 you must also unlearn some of what you know, for seemingly little gain. That gets boring.

Do you remember back in the late 1990s, when you were just starting?

In 1998, Cusumano and Yoffie coined the term "Internet Time" to describe Netscape. Here are some quotes from http://edition.cnn.com/books/beginnings/9811/internet.time/ :

> The conventional wisdom about competition in the age of the Internet is that the business world has become incredibly fast and unpredictable, and we need to throw out the old rules of the game. ... After more than a year of intensive investigation, we are inclined to agree with some (but not all) of the hype. ...

> For us, competing on Internet time is about moving rapidly to new products and markets; becoming flexible in strategy, structure, and operations; and exploiting all points of leverage for competitive advantage. The Internet demands that firms identify emerging opportunities quickly and move with great speed to take advantage of them. Equally important, managers must be flexible enough to change direction, change their organization, and change their day-to-day operations. Finally, in an information world where too many competitive advantages can be fleeting and new entrants can easily challenge incumbents, companies must find sources of leverage that can endure, either by locking in customers or exploiting opponents' weaknesses in such a way that they cannot respond. In short, competing on Internet time requires quick movement, flexibility, and leverage vis-a-vis your competitors, an approach to competition that we define later in this chapter as "judo strategy."

Sound familiar?

This of course lead to a lot of use of the phrase in pop culture, and counter-arguments, like Demming's essay at https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/504729.504742?casa_t...

> One of the most common buzzwords today is "Internet time." It describes the apparent increase of the pace of important events that we experience with the Internet. Developments that used to take years, it seems, now happen in days. Competitors pop up by surprise from nowhere; it is no longer possible to identify them all and monitor them. The now-widespread practice of email has simultaneously improved business communications and become a burden for many. Many IT practitioners, growing weary of spending two or three hours a day keeping up with the many dozen arriving email messages, complain of "information overload." Like most buzzwords, "Internet time" and "information overload" contain important seeds of truth while masking misconceptions that lead to ineffective actions.

> Andrew Odlyzko debunks a key aspect of Internet time - the notion that the Internet has sped up the pace of production and adoption of new technologies [3]. He offers example after example of new technologies that have taken just as long to diffuse as their predecessors in previous decades. He concludes that the most cited example, the Web browser, is the single exception to the rule. He claims that belief in the myth comes from a misreading of transient phenomena and from business hype.

Time to rewatch Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance. :)