You no longer have 10,000 hours to become a supremely accomplished anything. Additionally, those superbly mastered skills that worked to differentiate your business, have distorted into obscure techniques for specialized fine artists. Thus, before you can cash in on those professional skills, they’re no longer in demand. My peers surely remember the fine black and white prints on Agfa Portrega-Rapid Photo Paper processed in Bovira as a fond distant memory. “Damn, just when I was starting to get good.”
A Detroit auto-worker replaced by robots will mutter, “no shit”, when they hear a creative professional complain about digital this or CS4 that causing a downward creative demand. Craftsmanship has taken many tough hits in the form of the newest creative tools.
Can the 10,0000 hour skill of a professional compete with the 500 hour skill of 1000 amateurs? The new creative democracy yields plenty of broken hearts, but let’s looks beyond that to what the tools allow the ubiquitous creative minds to achieve.
No time to whine. What I’m suggesting is that there has been no other period when a highly accomplished professional from one field could apply their expertise to another, and do it solo. There are enough specialized skills automated by hardware and software to allow knowledge to cross disciplines, and then push those skills out to the masses like Rupert Murdoch.
Great article. Scary and positive at the same time. Do you fit into this discussion? Your skills?
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