As scientists age, the problem isn’t that their minds slow down, it’s that they’ve invested decades in a particular framework, and accepting genuinely new ideas would mean discarding that investment. So they don’t. They dismiss new approaches, often without realizing they’re doing it, because the new ideas don’t fit the worldview their careers were built on.

This is why we must wait for #Bitcoin to be adopted, suddenly, be the inheritors of science and reason.

Right now most of the wealth in our global economy is stored in advice held by people in this category, boomers, who struggle with new ideas not because they can’t learn, but because accepting them would invalidate the framework their careers were built on.