BIG ASS THREAD. I'm of the mind that certain words have a lot of meaning, both intended and unintended. I want to talk about the Tech's world's love of "Disruption."
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The concept of disruptive innovation is actually pretty simple: enter any given marketplace by creating a new technology that completely shakes up the given model and create a new model.
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The tech world has come to worship this disruption for obvious reason: it's the quickest way to get rich fast. It's the way to hurt your competition. It''s the fastest path to empire. And most of all, it's the best way to get attention from venture capitalists for your series A.
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The problems of disruption are also obvious. Because if disruption is the goal, no one really thinks about the validity of the new thing they create, they just care that it breaks the old thing. It has all the constructive nuance of a wrecking ball.
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Yeah, but other people do think about this. What have these applications *really* disrupted? I'm not quite with you on "democracy," but clearly it is ad-financed attention economies. What was the old, better thing we lost? Reality TV? 60s Sitcoms? Major League Baseball?
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Take for one second to think about the level of things that "turned on" and notified us in 1988 versus the amount that do now (hint: a few phone calls a day vs a billion mini notifications). We always checked in with the thing. It didn't check into us. That's the story.
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