Thanks, everybody,
I guess I have one more question before I try to respond to some these excellent comments: If you ARE (factual) or WERE (counter-factual) a technology startup, do you (would you) advertise yourself as a disruptor? What would the promotional THEORY behind doing so? What market share would you be hoping to capture. What would be the business model? N Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University <http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Gillian Densmore Sent: Monday, October 17, 2016 5:55 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] enablors vs disruptors Enablers are things like an enabled (turned on) WarpCoil or Inertial Dampeners or Teleporters. Disrupters shoot stuff to blow up rocks. But I suspect nick or his friend don't mean as in from StarTrek. On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 5:00 PM, Marcus Daniels <mar...@snoutfarm.com <mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com> > wrote: Sure, mobile internet & cloud was a disrupter to the PC industry and to the business of selling analog landlines. Intel recently had layoffs of more than 10k workers as a result. From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com <mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com> ] On Behalf Of Owen Densmore Sent: Monday, October 17, 2016 3:47 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com <mailto:friam@redfish.com> > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] enablors vs disruptors Was the iPhone a disrupter? On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Marcus Daniels <mar...@snoutfarm.com <mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com> > wrote: I’d say the folks that think a jackhammer is needed, aren’t a victim of the folks with the concrete in a truck (that presumably pour it on anything they can!), they are the sites where a jackhammer is now a useful instrument. This makes me think of those bathtubs that can be installed right on top of old tubs. Pour baby pour! From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com <mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com> ] On Behalf Of Carl Tollander Sent: Monday, October 17, 2016 2:04 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com <mailto:friam@redfish.com> > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] enablors vs disruptors Well, there's the concrete truck and then there's the jackhammer. On Oct 17, 2016 1:24 PM, "Marcus Daniels" <mar...@snoutfarm.com <mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com> > wrote: It depends on whether, like David, you point to liberalism as the threat to individual freedom and productivity, or the momentum of conservativism and oligarchy to constrain lives. Some (like Assange) can’t stand either one. A disruptor seeks a benign sort of chaos when power can shift hands quickly, and repeatedly. The people that are all used up and have limited skills should give way to those that do. Sure they can try to elect someone like Trump, but that’s where sophisticated “liberal autocracy” must step-up to outmaneuver the reactionaries. From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com <mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com> ] On Behalf Of Nick Thompson Sent: Monday, October 17, 2016 12:18 PM To: friam <friam@redfish.com <mailto:friam@redfish.com> > Cc: 'Stephen Guerin' <stephen.gue...@simtable.com <mailto:stephen.gue...@simtable.com> > Subject: [FRIAM] enablors vs disruptors Dear Friammers, A close friend of mine has gone to work in marketing for a Startup Incubator in Another City. I have been perusing the website and I notice frequent use of the word “disruptors”, as if disruption was a goal in itself. This puzzles me. I have always thought of technology as “enabling’ and have thought of its disruptive effects as a kind of collateral damage that needs to be mitigated. Now I recognize that one of the properties of a really good technology company is the ability to respond quickly to disruption, and to provide solutions and open up opportunities for those whose lives are disrupted. And I realize that if I owned a technology company, I might want to produce disruption in order that I might supply “enablors” to the disrupted. But isn’t it a case of industrial narcissism to MARKET oneself as a disruptor, a kind of “preaching to the choir”, rather than outreach to potential purchasers of one’s technology? Or is my thinking “oh so 20th Century.” Nick Nicholas S. 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