Change doesn't do reverse.

I've sometimes wondered what it felt like to be a buggy whip maker when automobiles were entering the scene, or the big airline companies felt like as the first budget airlines appeared. Or what the big hotel companies felt like on the day that they realised AirBnB now had more bed spaces than they did (I was in a major hotel chain's board room that day. It was interesting.)

I thought this as I noticed an article on BBC suggesting the transition to EV will happen faster than we think. There's an article in the Economist today on a potential reckoning in the big city office market as developers find ways to tempt people to come into places that are no longer necessary.

And these are not even Black Swans; they're Grey ones - ones that have been in plain sight all along but ignored because they are inconvenient.

We have a long and infamous history of sidelining what was already in sight. The BBC article invokes Gartner's hype cycle (though doesn't name it)