The Death of a Technical Skill

The authors acknowledge valuable feedback from seminar participants at the National Bureau of Economic Research IT and Digitization Summer Institute, the INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology, Cornell University, Arizona State University, the Rotterdam School of Management, the University of Texas-Austin, the University of Maryland, the University of Utah, Carnegie Mellon University, and McGill University. Thanks to James Bessen, Apostolos Filippas, Richard Zeckhauser, Chis Stanton, David Autor, Rob Seamans, Jacques Crémer, Adam Ozimek, Sebastian Steffen, Andrey Fradkin, Erina Ytsma, Abhishek Nagaraj, Emma van Ingwen, Joe Golden, Brett Danaher, and Daniel Rock for helpful comments and suggestions. Prasanna Tambe is grateful for financial support from the Alfred P. Sloan foundation. John Horton is grateful for financial support from the Upjohn Institute. Thanks to Jeff Bigham and Elliot Geno for insight into the labor market for Flash skills.