Tech is disrupting all before it – even democracy is in its sights
by Carole Cadwalladr from Technology | The Guardian on (#20H8Q)
The information revolution is threatening our political system
Once upon a time, a long, long, long time ago, small children might get told off for being loud or unruly or, as we called it then, "disruptive". Now? Not so much. In 2016, it's cool to be disruptive. It's what every startup in Silicon Valley is straining to do.
It's what Airbnb has done - disrupting the hotel industry as Uber has disrupted taxis and Amazon has disrupted bookshops and almost everything else. Two years ago I went to a conference in San Francisco, TechCrunch Disrupt, and met many people claiming to disrupt many things, including, in one case, socks.
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