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Remember when "The Cloud" was going to put everyone in IT out of a job?
I mean, isn't that what "get on or get left behind" means?
It does not necessarily mean you'll lose your job. Nor does "get on" mean you have to become a specialist on it.
The post picks specifically on things that didn't catch on (or that only catched on for a period of time but were eventually superseeded), but does not apply it to other successful technologies.
Blackberry? I was like 10 at the time so this is based off my memory of who had what phone but that seems like the right guess