Scott D. Anthony

I said, there still are a lot of questions about disruption.

It's been 20 plus years since the idea has been out there.

People misuse it.

People don't understand it.

I said, maybe taking a fresh look and looking through the lens of deep history,

will teach me things I didn't know and allow me to communicate in ways I couldn't communicate before.

And that's absolutely what I found.

In the end, I was so thrilled that I didn't have this idea, but I did like this idea because it just taught me so many things about disruption that I just would not have learned in any other way.

So first, just to make sure we've got terms of reference, let me talk about what disruption is.

And I will illustrate this with an example.

My father was born in 1947.

In 1947, there was exactly one computer in the world.

It was huge.

It weighed about 20 tons.

I was born in 1975.

Now, there are tens of thousands of computers in the world.

They're still pretty big, and they're not things that I as an individual would likely ever access because they're in very large organizations in central locations.

My daughter Holly is born in 2007.

Now there are hundreds of millions of computers.

We talked already about Microsoft Dell, and we know all the names.