Disruptive technology is technology that comes into our worlds and disrupts existing markets and value chains. Bill Gates once said that the truely exciting part of the computer age is when it start to change the way people go around doing their everyday activities. This is when technology changes are revolutionary.
Mobile phones changed the way how we communicated twenty years ago, not having to stop at a payphone, we all embraced it in our everyday lives to feel safer and became more productive as a result, managing more activities within the 24 hours a day we are all given.
With computing becoming more mobile chances are we will be searching for and broadcasting updates and information, entertain and be entertained, browse and shop when travelling, relaxing or performing routine activities.
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Technology will save us time, make us more productive and ultimately allow us to enjoy life more every day. Bill Gates summarised it well when he said "I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in".
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