Bankruption

Chapter 5Finishing Move

An Introduction to the End

Tomorrow is yesterday. That's clear.

As we approach the disruption black hole, our bubble of a ship gives passengers a crystal‐clear view of the lab's latest creation: a gravy‐lathered and room‐temperature time melt. Thin is the bubble's skin—parallax error‐free—where the slow and cozy inside ends and its blurry outside begins is anyone's guess.

Some bulkhead and others exit‐row seated, the never‐enough‐connected passengers are seduced by both ends of time simultaneously connecting and repelling itself.

Inside the bubble, giants figure. Startups raise. Networks writhe. Investors scramble. Millennials age. Institutions stutter. Analysts wax semantic.

It's still today. And the discussion is still here. And the uneasy panel of fortuneteller professors are still attempting to elucidate “disruption.”

Pseudo‐intellectual drivel or MBA‐inspired rant—they are one and the same. Volumes to learn, see, and buy from skewed‐research salesmen and skewered‐research dreamers.

Who doesn't have an answer? Who hasn't a theory to elucidate?

Perhaps it's a bit more difficult than it sounds. Their cerebella as axels wrapped in dissonance. As if asymmetrical concordance might help all us chickens rationalize an antidote.

“The sky is falling!”…“Define ‘is.’”

The graffitied walls of this echo chamber, patented by payments trolls and overhyped by investors. Simultaneously soothsaid and daily reality, some can't shake the feeling of a long‐lost mammal ...