Is the Internet a Fad or a Fad?

There's clearly a correlation for some people of coding proficiencyn thinking through complex, coading problems. But as a manager, is this something you had to confirm? I've had multiple employees who worked for me who were on the spectrum, and you have to manage them differently. They can be incredibly high performers. And some of the best developers i've seen. We ere talking about, sort of infamously wrong predictions about the future of technology.