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There's Usually Some Process By Which A Potentially Great Idea Gets Prostituted Into Something Lacklustre, Or By Which The Wrong Idea Gets Put Forward.

Every Disruptive Innovation Is Powered By A Simplifying Technology, And Then The Technology Has To Get Embedded In A Different Kind Of A Business Model. The First Two Decades Of Digital Computing Were Characterized By The Huge Mainframe Computers That Filled A Whole Room, And They Had To Be Operated By Phd Computer Scientists. It Took The Engineers At Ibm About Four Years To Design These Mainframe Computers Because There Were No Rules. It Was An Intuitive Art And Just By Trial And Error And Experimentation They Would Evolve To A Computer That Worked.

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The Important Thing Is That Over Time, Scientific Progress Transforms Things That Used To Have To Be Dealt With In A Problem-solving Mode Down To The Pattern-recognition Space; And From Pattern Recognition Into The Rules-based Mode. This Is The Mechanism By Which Less-trained People Are Enabled To Do More Sophisticated Things. This Is Always The Way Disruption Happens. It Enables A Larger Population Of Less-experienced People To Do More Sophisticated Things.

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