Why Is Disruption So Hard For Some People To Accept?

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 16: Steven Spielberg attends the 55th Annual Cinema Audio Society Awards at InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown on February 16, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. Considered by many as the best film director of all time, with three Oscars under his belt and countless more awards over the course of his career, Steven Spielberg seems an unlikely candidate to illustrate the difficulties some people have in accepting disruption. Acclaimed as one of the founding pioneers of the New Hollywood era and producer or director of legendary science fiction movies as "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", AI Artificial Intelligence, Minority Report or Ready Player One among many others, Spielberg is clearly someone who not only understands the impact of technology on society, but is also able to interpret it on the big screen in a way few others have managed. Imagine my surprise then, when I read over breakfast this morning that in light of Roma's three Academy Awards, Spielberg is backing proposals that would try to exclude streaming companies like Netflix or Amazon from the Oscars. "Once you commit to a television format, you're a TV movie. You certainly -- if it's a good show -- deserve an Emmy, but not an Oscar."