Blog 2. 10/2/2011

This week in class, we talked about disruptive technologies among other things. Disruptive technologies are technologies that help create a new market and eventually disrupt and existing market, displacing an earlier technology there. Some examples that we talked about that were disruptive technologies were Ipods, flat screen televisions, and automobiles. Ipods are examples of disruptive technology because when Ipods came along, things like walk-mans and cd players became a thing of the past. Ipods made it easy to buy a single song instead of having to buy a whole album. When Ipods came along, the art of making an LP and telling a story went away because people started buying single songs instead of albums. An automobile is also and example of a disruptive technology because automobiles made it a lot easier to transport things such as goods. Before automobiles came along, goods were moved my boats and trains among other things. However, now automobiles do a good portion of the transporting that boats and trains used to do.