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Article: TECHNOLOGY: Disruptive Technology.
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- Phi Delta Kappan
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- March 1, 2002
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I FIRST read the phrase "disruptive technologies" in David Bank's excellent book, Breaking Windows: How Bill Gates Fumbled the Future of Microsoft. Bank is a reporter for the Wall Street Journal and has covered Microsoft since 1996. The federal government's antitrust suit against Microsoft gave the news media an unprecedented insider's view of Microsoft because copies of all e-mails, meeting transcripts, and other documents became public court records. I believe Bank picked up the notion of disruptive technologies, along with the phrase, from Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen's book The Innovator's Dilemma. According to Bank,
"a disruptive ...