The secret for dealing with change is:   do not fear it.   The digital computer is, and was, itself “an instrument of radical change,” and it has never afforded anyone in this industry the luxury of standing still.   I hope, and expect, that it never will.

Computers are critical components of ongoing business operations that have nothing to do with computers, but which cannot be pursued without them.   This means that there will always be a curious split:   even as we pursue new technologies, we find ourselves maintaining mission-critical applications that are thirty or more years old.   (In another twenty years, they will be “fifty or more years old.”)   So, it is really the case that the job keeps expanding.   And that, for thirty-odd years now in my case, is still what I enjoy the most about this industry.  

(It’s also very nice that experience is still a thing that is very much prized... by some.   And those who do not prize it... keep losing games and don’t figure out why.)