Fifteen to twenty years ago, it was thought that the statistics profession would have to change in order to survive in a world for which technology would have a profound impact on virtually every aspect of our lives. With the ability to acquire unprecedented amount of data, who would need stochastic models and statistical inference. Many predicted that computer science and other engineering disciplines would own statistics and that eventually departments of statistics would eventually shrink or disappear entirely. This prognostication has not yet come true. I will suggest that statistics and probably have adapted well and are in fact thriving disciplines