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Digital Darwinism, 2nd Edition
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Digital Darwinism, 2nd Edition

by Tom Goodwin
May 2022
Intermediate to advanced
248 pages
5h 42m
English
Kogan Page
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CHAPTER THREE

Disruption and the paradigm shift

The best swordsman in the world doesn’t need to fear the second-best swordsman in the world; no, the person for him to be afraid of is some ignorant antagonist who has never had a sword in his hand before; he doesn’t do the thing he ought to do, and so the expert isn’t prepared for him.

MARK TWAIN

It’s fascinating that a quote that best explains how the spirit of disruption doesn’t come from a startup founder at last year’s TechCrunch or from a venture capital expert in Silicon Valley but from a writer, more than 120 years ago, about medieval conflict. It sometimes seems that leading businesses are ignorant and antagonistic.

When the iPhone launched in 2007, it was both the best phone the world ...

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ISBN: 9781398601932