Future Here Now: Disrupt...but not like that

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This week, we’ll be focusing on the question of disruption — when it’s needed, when it’s helpful, when it’s not, and when it’s downright hurtful. There’s a school of thought that says that disruption, especially technology-driven disruption, is a long-term good that advances growth and economic progress, while we all also know people and communities and businesses that view any kind of change as an existential threat.

Like most issues in the emerging Fusion Era, this question is more a yes-and than the either-or that our Industrial Era minds might assume. The recent challenges at Twitter and Silicon Valley Bank and others point to both the incredible catalyst of groundbreaking approaches, and the very real hurt and damange that can come about as the result. One does not negate or excuse the other, and neither one in exclusion will enable prosperity in an economy where both innovation and the full inclusion of the people needed to create innovations will be needed.