Resistance is Futile

One of the labels (or tags) on my blog posts is "Television" for items dealing with TV shows. But what is television anymore? Yesterday's post was about RWBY, which started out as a web series on YouTube but is not streaming on Netflix. So is that TV? Most TVs connect automatically to streaming services such as YouTube, so is YouTube TV? What if you watch it on your phone? Or tablet? What about a video blog (or vlog)? A podcast that also streams video?

There are so many different ways of viewing video content that our definition of television has necessarily had to expand. It's interesting how fast technology has caused changes in consumer habits and how slow many traditional media outlets have embrace - or even acknowledge - change. The ones who don't are getting left behind and falling into irrelevancy.

What is it that causes a company or organization - or a church - to resist change? Sunk costs, for sure. "We've investing x amount of money in this, we want to see a return on our investment." Uncertainty no doubt factors in - "What if it doesn't work?" Stubbornness - "We've always done it this way!" Nostalgia for the good old days - "Back in my day..."

It's probably the same things that cause a person to resist change. 

Some changes are no doubt worth resisting. But there are other changes - both positive and negative - that we can ignore and avoid and refuse to acknowledge, but which will happen regardless and will result in us being left behind. 

What changes are you resisting? Why?