I had breakfast today with one of the brightest and savviest people in Chicago's real estate advertising community. We'll call him adosaurus rex for purposes of this post.

I talked about HousingNewswire, and the potential it holds for his home builder clients.

Adosaurus rex saw an asteroid in every point of light I tried to shine on the subject. Everything I saw as an opportunity, he saw as a threat. Change, in his view, threatened extinction.

Disruptive technologies marginalize people who fear the changes they portend. Adosaurus rex won't become extinct very soon, but he may soon become irrelevant.

In the meantime, I'll be breakfasting a few more of his species.