A new report just out from Forrester confirms my long-standing view that the migration of American households to a digital life is accelerating, the leading side-effect of the Law of Disruption.
A summary of the report in The New York Times on Sept. 2, 2009 notes that the speed with which consumers are adopting disruptive technologies [...]
Larry Downes is a consultant and speaker on developing business
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The Disruptive Power of Digital Life
September 3rd, 2009
Change we can’t believe in–at least not when it comes to copyright
August 31st, 2009
In Chapter 9 of “The Laws of Disruption,” I write about the ridiculous increases in statutory fines for copyright violations that the entertainment world has forced into law over the last few decades, even as the costs of production, marketing and distribution of content decrease with the advent of electronic channels. In the one [...]
The SCO Phoenix Rises…Again
August 31st, 2009
I made a lot of people in the Linux community unhappy when I wrote in CIO Insight ( “Battle over Linux: When a Win May Not Be a Win,” Sept., 2007 ) that the decision by federal judge Dale Kimball to grant partial summary judgment to Novell on SCO’s claims of ownership of key [...]