In a matter of moments, we have seen technology that has survived for decades brutally disappear. The telegraph, for example, died. For years it represented immediacy and importance. It was a symbol of urgency - until the fax came along and displaced it.
This situation represents a change in paradigms - a discontinuity in the normal course of business progress.
At its moment the automobile also represented a discontinuity that radically changed society and the economy. In the ...