Why is the resume still even a thing?

Literally do not (and have not ever) understand the basic resume. Why is this still a thing? In the era of LinkedIn, which is apparently worth $26 billion but has essentially no value, why are we still evaluating people off the basic resume? I’m confused.

Then I run into articles like this one about how “leading companies build the workforce they need” (buzzword alert) and I see quotes like this:

The World Economic Forum predicts that “by 2020, more than a third of the desired core skill sets of most occupations will be comprised of skills that are not yet considered crucial to the job today.”

Yea. The basic resume is dead.

The basic resume and checklists of skills

I absolutely despise this concept. You ever see a job listing with 17 required skills, including pornography experience and speaking Italian, and then the salary range is $40,000? Huh? My broader point is this: if you truly believe we live in the era of disruption and business is shifting every 12 seconds, then who cares about pre-existing skill sets? Your job role is probably somewhat unclear anyway (often the case) and will shift 21 times in the next six months, so why not go get the best people and train ’em up to the specific role? Seems more logical to me, but we tend to overrate…