![]() Recall the industrial revolution where entire professions went away (blacksmiths, farmers, etc.). We are living through the Information Revolution that will have as a disruptive place in history as any previous societal/cultural revolution (e.g. The ferocity of this riptide includes Newsweek being sold for $1 in 2011, and the sale of the Washington Post for $250 million and the Boston Globe for $70 million, when just a few years earlier these newspapers were valued in the billions. ![]() ![]() For example, for the newspaper and magazine industry, the process of disruption has been described as being gripped by a digital riptide. The new competitor gains a substantial foothold, and because of the existing mindset, past success, and sunk costs, the established leader is caught unaware. When Clayton Christensen examines the impact of disruptive innovation on established companies, he notes that by the time a new threat to a company is recognized, it is too late. To illustrate our present disruptive environment consider the following from an email from Jack Shea of EMC Academic Alliance… If you are starting your studies in computing I believe you have chosen the correct path as you want to be on the correct side of the digital divide… which I think will continue to widen. Welcome to CISS 100 – Introduction to Computing and Information Sciences.
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