Scott D. Anthony

There are laptops and desktop computers.

And of course, in 2007, we now have a computer that's in our palm and in our pocket with the introduction of the Apple iPhone.

Today, there are billions of computers.

That's disruption.

Take the complicated and expensive, make it simple and affordable, change market dynamics, drive explosive growth.

The word epic in the title is absolutely an intentional word.

In 1620, Sir Francis Bacon said, there have been three things that have changed the state and appearance of the entire world.

Gunpowder, printing press, the compass.

Those are epic disruptions, things that change the state and appearance of the entire world.

Two of those three made it into epic disruptions.

The compass did not for whatever reason.

The rest of the stories are like that.

You can see a material difference in the world before and the world after.

That is an epic disruption.

The world is different because it exists.

Many things.

I will highlight two things.

First, it helps us to understand that innovator's dilemma.

So the story starts in 1453.

There's an army approaching Constantinople.