A little history
When looking for the best learning investments, I like using wise business principle practiced by Jeff Bezos:
I very frequently get the question: What s going to change in the next 10 years? And that is a very interesting question; it s a very common one. I almost never get the question: What s not going to change in the next 10 years? And I submit to you that that second question is actually the more important of the two - because you can build a business strategy around the things that are stable in time.
On the surface technology is advancing extremely fast, but most of it is powered by fairly stable foundations and a quick dive into history may reveal one of them.