Great article Chuck.

I always try to correlate everything happening today from an IoE/IoT and Cisco perspective to various other industries transformed in the past century or how our industry has transformed in the past decades.

Automobile - US went from the end to end leader in automobile producer ( Ford Model T) to be one of the playes by 1990. There are shifts in economics that led to the change.

IT organizations in the current shape and form while change so much that companies will look back in 2025 and say "What were we thinking and why did it take us so long to realize"