Brown Motion

The year is 2020.  I am reading a book written by one of my favorite non fiction writers, Michael Lewis.  This one is from two decades ago called 'next - the future just happened'. In the book Michael goes on to show how change was happening fast around the year 1999 and the internet was becoming a pervasive force that very few really understood. But the thesis of the book is to say that those that did not jump into the flow and take advantage of the change that was imminent were likely to be left behind.  And a whole lot of folks did get left behind. Anticipating change and being amenable to it is a good thing.  Stasis can kill.  However, there is another side to that coin. Having information now accessible at the click of a mouse was the new norm but it did not foresee all of the (unintended) consequences. Back in the day the phrase in America was 'armchair quarterback'.  When television antennas beamed an NFL game to a cathode ray tube the pub...