Disruption in Your LIfe

Disrupt has the following definition from The Free Dictionary:

1. To throw into confusion or disorder: Protesters disrupted the candidate's speech.

2. To interrupt or impede the progress, movement, or procedure of: Our efforts in the garden were disrupted by an early frost.

3. To break or burst; rupture.

 

Disruption occurs in all areas of ones life, not just in markets and technology.  For example, marriage is surly a disruption in your lifestyle.  Children not only disrupt, but they are a disruption in your lifestyle as well.  Changing jobs can be very disruptive, sometimes resulting in a complete change in you career.  

 

Are they good, or bad?  Maybe both at the same time?  Whatever they are to you, they can be the catalyst to make changes that are both sustainable and better for you.

 

Disruption in technology can destroy markets and create new ones almost overnight. Disruptive technology is a term coined by Harvard Business School professor Clayton M. Christensen to describe a new technology that unexpectedly displaces an established technology.  

 

My interest is in why and how do these occur.  What have been the disruptions in your life?  What disruptive innovations have you experienced.   Let me know how you handled these.

Object storage predictions for 2013

Object storage predictions for 2013
Object storage is an on-again, off-again topic.  But, now it appears that object storage will be a game changer for cloud storage, big data analytics, and mobility which requires that the metadata be stored along with the data.  For object storage to take off in the corporate market, there has to be a standard interface for application vendors to write to. Object storage is the solution for organizations that deal with extreme amounts of unstructured data.

Disruption, Again, by the Automobile

The arrival of the automobile was a disruptive technology, replacing whole industries that had grown up supporting horses and buggies.  A recent post in Wired byThilo Koslowski suggests that the automobile, aka, the car, has become the ultimate mobile device. 

"“Connected vehicles” are cars that access, consume, create, enrich, direct, and share digital information between businesses, people, organizations, infrastructures, and things. Those “things” include other vehicles, which is where the Internet of Things becomes the Internet of Cars."

One might ask when such vehicles might become available?  The prediction is that within the next few years companies will begin announcing plans for advanced automotive technology products.  Google has received permission from the State of California to test autonomous vehicles.

What type of disruption could one expect?  If we look backwards and see that the automobile replaced the requirement for one horse per person.  One automobile also replaced the requirement for several horses per buggy.  With the American love for the automobile, we have regressed to one or more cars per person.  But, the younger generation may change this.

"These tradeoffs are even more important to younger vehicle owners (18- to 24-year-olds) than older ones (54+ years). The younger group is more likely (30%) to choose internet access over having a vehicle (compared to just 12% of the older group), and about the same percentages are likely to use a car-sharing service as an alternative to vehicle ownership. "

So, car ownership may change.  One can envision that taxi cabs may not disappear, but become autonomous vehicles that are called when needed.   One can envision a tiered transportation system from individual autonomous cars at the high cost end, multiple person shared vehicles, such as Vans, in the middle, and busses with fixed routes as they are today, but moving autonomously.

If one spends a few moments thinking about the potential, there will be a large shift in the types of services available to the public.