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Originally published on Forbes.com

You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. — Bob Dylan, “Subterranean Homesick Blues”

The recent news about Kadak does not change the fact that their story is a classic one about their rise and fall after creating digital photography. A company invents a new technology but fails to embrace it. As a result, the company dies a slow and painful death, causing thousands to lose their jobs worldwide.

Some of you may not know of the history of The Village Voice newspaper in New York, but The Voice, as it was popularly called, was the creator of the alternative model of newspaper publishing. It represented Greenwich Village and the counterculture in New York with spirit and heart, spotting and revealing trends to wannabes, cognoscenti and literary minds of its time. Norman Mailer, Ezra Pound, E.E. Cummings, Tom Stoppard and Allen Ginsberg all wrote for it. Jules Pfeiffer, R. Crumb and Matt Groening were all cartoonists for it.

Something happened at The Voice, and it’s the same as what happened at Kodak as well as other companies that manufactured pagers, dedicated…