Scott D. Anthony

And they asked, any protagonists in the book who are over 50?

And I said, I think so.

And I thought immediately of Julia Child and Julia Child the first time she went on television.

She was 50 years old.

But then I started going through every chapter and every chapter where there's names, the printing press.

Gutenberg was at least 55 when the first Bible came off the printing press.

Sir Francis Bacon, who I mentioned before, the disruptive idea of the scientific revolution.

He was more than 60.

when he wrote his breakthrough book.

And this is in the 17th century.

Steve Jobs is 52 when the iPhone comes out.

So of course, we celebrate the wunderkinds that come up with ideas in their late teens and early 20s.

But there's a lot to be said for people who have crystallized intelligence, who can take all the wisdom they have and say,

I see something here.

I see pieces I can put together that you might not see because you don't have the experience.

That was just an interesting thing that was in plain sight, but I had not seen it before.

Disruption begins at 50, I guess.

At first, I will admit it's a little bit of a stretch.

The conclusion of the book, it says for each of the chapters that focuses on a product, let's find an echo of that product in modern days that has some disruptive elements to it.

Some of them were very easy.