The pebble and the avalanche : how taking things apart creates revolutions /
Important revolutions of the past 30 years include the Internet, personal computers, the XML programming language, and the breakup of AT & T. What do they have in common? All are based on innovations that break technology apart. After breaking a technology apart, it still works -- phone calls co...
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San Francisco, CA :
Berrett-Koehler,
©2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Disaggregation: Why the Sum of the Parts Is Greater than the Whole: Disaggregation: The Driving Force of Revolution
- Starting Revolutions: What to Take Apart
- Benefits of Disaggregation: the Revolutionary's Bill of Rights
- Four Stages to Revolution: Devise, Interface, Accept, Evaluate
- Part II: Case Studies: Two Hundred Years of Revolution: From Horse and Buggies to Jet Planes: The Revolution in Manufacturing
- The Automobile Takes on the Railroads
- The Internet's Permanent Revolution
- Part III: Business Strategies: How to Cope, How to Fail, and How to Predict the Future: Interfaces and Standards: The Nuts and Bolts of Modern Civilization
- Coping with Surprises
- Marx, Lenin, and Gates: Failed Counterrevolutions
- The Role of Government
- Predictions: Three Revolutions in Progress
- Getting Started, Finishing Touches.