They'll only "eat our lunch" if they have real business-related skills to bring to the table. ZDNet is great for rallying behind feel-good, touchy-feely, kumbaya causes like social networking and open source, but unless these phenomena actually improve the a business's bottom line, that business will abandon them as costly fads.
Note that I'm not dismissing either out of hand. More power to anyone who can make money on, or using, these models ? by choice and without government mandate, that is. I'm merely questioning the wisdom of adopting any fad-du-jour simply because "the kids really seem to love it."
It's a bankrupt society that thinks the young and inexperienced know more than the old and seasoned ? and I'm speaking as someone still on the young side of that divide.
God help us if "the kids" ever run the show. (Oh wait, I forgot: since January, they do run the show ... at least in the U.S., that is.)
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