A collection of 19 posts
A good version of the well-told tale of how Kodak invented digital photography – and then stifled it until it was too late for the company: “Every digital camera that was sold took away from a film camera and we knew…
Sometimes we in media think we’ve been hit hard by digital. Be profoundly glad you don’t run an independent one-hour photo shop: No other business over the past 15 years has died off with the near-totality of the…
What does truly disruptive innovation look like? The opening session of LeWeb 2014’s third and final day set out to explore that in series of talks. Here’s some liveblogged notes: Brian Solis – Innovation as an ecosystem What is…
Massively disappointing article in The Guardian yesterday: John Naughton, professor of the public understanding of technology at the Open University, starts off promising to present a debunking of Clay Christensen’s Innovator’s Dilemma. And the piece started promisingly. But…
I’ve been reading – and throughly enjoying – Leander Kahney’s book about Jony Ive. Ive himself remains somewhat elusive in the story, but his work leaps out, and in the end, that’s what matters. The stuff about his childhood…
