Comments on: Four Disruptive Technologies for 2009

By: Pick of the predictions for 2009… - iCrossing

Pick of the predictions for 2009… - iCrossing — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:54:41 +0000

[...] Web Worker Daily’s Four Disruptive Technologies for 2009: The one to watch for me is the rise of Android / Linux phones. [...]

By: Tony Rybczynski Nortel

Tony Rybczynski Nortel — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:38:24 +0000

I think that ‘communications as software’ will be highly disruptive, though not a single technology per se. When integrated with business processes, it will be transformational for enterprises. It’s all about accelerating time to X.

See my blog at:
http://blog.tmcnet.com/the-hyperconnected-enterprise/unified-communications/shell-cash-on-the-ocs-telephony-barrel.asp

By: linux allegiance boosters - woodyevans.com

linux allegiance boosters - woodyevans.com — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:41:48 +0000

[...] on that some other time, maybe). So I was happy to see this boost from WebWorkerDaily (GigaOM) on the upcoming year’s highlighting of open source. Disruptive, even, this could be. Minor thing I think, but it takes a lot of drips before the [...]

By: dave

dave — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:52:24 +0000

@Samuel: I agree that these are all great new technologies with potential to change the way people work. The problem is that the meme “disruptive technology” has a very specific meaning that describes the disruption of an incumbent competitor, not someone’s workflow; it has nothing to do with the products you’re describing.

It was coined by a business school professor to describe technologies that attacked established competitors obliquely, by focusing on lower-end customers that the incumbent had ignored.

The products in this article are the kinds of things that the disruptive product theory specifically calls out as contrary examples; innovations that are great, but “sustaining.”

So — I enjoy the site, read it every day, and I’m not trying to be a pest; I just believe that to use this specific term for other things really dilutes the meaning.

See the wikipedia entry (linked above) for a better description than I can provide.

By: Doc

Doc — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:08:48 +0000

Hey all!

Meh, Instant on a disruptive technology? It was available years ago for windows via a project called ‘Ready On’. Sounds like someone ported it to Linux. It didn’t make that big of a splash on the largest personal pc platform I have low expectations for ‘Instant On’.

By: Shaan

Shaan — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:38:30 +0000

yeah, these are upgrades. Far from disruptive. Will there be a disruptive technology in 2009 that promises to cut costs during the present period of recession?

By: I’m CaLendarW Blog » Blog Archive » Today finding

I’m CaLendarW Blog » Blog Archive » Today finding — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:38:10 +0000

[...] Four Disruptive Technologies for 2009 It will change the world. [...]

By: Eamon Walshe

Eamon Walshe — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:15:59 +0000

i’ve been using Instant-On Computing for almost three years – ever since I purchased my first MacBook Pro.

By: ah

ah — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:09:27 +0000

802.11n : I dont think this is important for someone to use at home, this is very important in kinda large lans, eliminating the use of wires.

Iphone: I actually hate it, or more specifically, I hate the monopolitic approach of apple that I have to take everything I need through ITunes… that is why I find it useless, a great piece of technology that I cannot use!!
besides, I dont like beeing tied with a specific service provider (it it is great), I payed a lot for the phone and it is my right to use it anywhere…

Instant-on: I find it great!! the internet through cell phones is much more expansive.. at least where I live.

Android and Linux phones: if google played it correctly and opened the plateform enough to be used freely by everyone, they could win the mobile os war… and actually put IPhone out of the market!!

I generally think linux is a great platform, all it needs is some userfriendly interface (I mean more friendly)… like you can do anything without command line interface at all.

By: Steven

Steven — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:03:07 +0000

Instant-on: want to check the weather, that email from Fred, listen to a song? This is what your iPhone is already excellent for.

802.11n: great when you want to image your laptop over a wireless connection, but how many people have a pipe to the internet that big (or are likely to next year)? Also, what is the actual throughput after the overhead has been subtracted (I have no idea).

Android and Linux phones: I’m going to sound like an Apple fanboy as I type on my HP laptop, but why isn’t the iPhone included in this section rather than portrayed as some monolithic incumbent that will itself be disrupted (apart from the fact that it is already widely owned)?

finally, why do we always need these end of year lists!

By: Samuel

Samuel — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:08:10 +0000

@dave, I think they’re disruptive in terms of major changes they will bring in how people work. Yes, two of them are improved versions of existing technologies, but so was the commercial Internet. I define disruptive, at least in terms of our focus here, as a major shock to how people work.

Best,
Sam

By: A. Acevedo

A. Acevedo — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:13:18 +0000

If Firefox open source is any indication, the new open source technologies will be excellent. Regarding standardization, what do you think of an energy efficiency rating for software, that takes into account an estimation of the total amount of kilowatt-hours used to develop, and then use the application?

By: Bruce

Bruce — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:44:34 +0000

Upgrades yes…some time saving. But, surely the office slacker will abuse its intended use. The ‘instant on’ is the one I am looking at. Stay tuned.

By: dave

dave — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:59:35 +0000

hi! Most of these sound like upgrades, not disruptive technologies.