The Irony of Calling Something Cutting-Edge in the Early 21st Century

There are countries that sell and buy clothes, and there are countries that only (used to) produce them.

There are those who create and enjoy services or content, and there are those who just work hard producing.

Looking only at the manufacturing market, circumstances diverged by era. Long ago, clothes were made at Guro Industrial Complex and exported. But recently — actually, for a long time already (perhaps since before some of you were even born) — where that once was, there now sit rows of high-tech IT companies.
Today, it is not the era itself but the relationship between the culture of the organization a person belongs, can belong, or wants to belong to and that person's attitude that makes people living at the same time actually live in different eras.
Attitude forms interest; interest forms relationships. Some work to make those relationships firmer; others try to escape them.

Working in IT, I meet so many organizations and individuals online and offline. Collaborating, exchanging thoughts, or experiencing their services directly and indirectly — sometimes it feels like someone came from 2030 and someone else from 2010.

The most ironic part.. is when, for example, they build the cloud, yet the actual internal documents are stored as files on floppy disks. That kind of feel. Like running an espresso specialty shop while not being able to drink coffee. Like selling carrot cake while allergic to carrots. More or less..

There are those who run and use IT services, and there are quite a few — quite a few — who only develop the services.