Opinion The IT industry is not only full of sharks, it has shark nature itself. It must keep moving forward to survive. Not all sharks are obligate ram ventilators, and not all IT changes all the time, but without innovation the sector would curdle and die.

Venture capitalists and cash-rich tech companies feel this most keenly, which is why they swarm like makos to the bleeding edge. But innovation itself is not enough. Blockchain is very clever, but has made the world a nastier place while losing a lot of people a lot of money. AI’s trajectory from wait-and-see could just as easily go that way as any other. Actual change, innovation that sticks around and becomes part of a better way forward, doesn’t have to and really should not make its inventors billionaires. It is thus often invisibl

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