The Millennials Are Screwed article in the Huffington Post is very good and mentions that "poverty is rarely caused by one thing going wrong. Usually, it is a series of misfortunes—a job loss, then a car accident, then an eviction—that interact and compound."
The compound effect explains why things feel like they are happening "Gradually, then suddenly".
And you can see how that applies to tech and politics.
One website that sells books online and then CDs online, small things in cardboard boxes... one virtual server to make hosting easier... doesn't seem that big a deal at first.
There's no excuse for politicians and senior leaders in society not to understand the basics of the internet. There's even less excuse for failing to understand the effects of "compounding".
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