Social Change

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Here’s a link to an interesting NYTimes article about changing lifestyles in the US.

Writer Bruce Sterling writes a biting commentary about the dysfunctional health care system and how some disruptive technologies and processes might change it. Inspired by a book by Clayton Christensen entitiled Seeing What’s Next, he considers some industries perhaps ripe for disruption. …I searched for the stupidest, most dysfunctional US industry I could find. The automotive and energy industries – ...

Another article from Wired about how rapidly broadband is opening up endless "channels" for TV and video about everything. With "narrowcasting" and precipitously dropping production and transmission costs, no niche is too small for video. "I deeply believe that over the next several years it will be this blend of very popular shows to kind of middle-of-the-road, down to you-happen-to-be-a-fly-fishing-guy, ...