The Seven Digital Disruptions

OM Malik has a great post up, with the help of Bob Baily, CEO of PMC Sierra.

He lists Bob's five digital disruptions and adds two more.

Here they are:

MPEG/MP3 - Disrupts the music and movie business
PVRs - Disrupts the TV ad business
Broadband Entertainment - Disrupts the TV business
Digital Cameras and JPEGS - Disrupts the film business
Linux - Disrupts the operating system business
Network Computers - disrupts the PC hardware/software business
Wireless Networks - disrupts the wire line phone business
VOIP - disrupts the entire phone business

The truth is there are probably many more examples of this stuff. It's the defining characteristic of the economy in the first decade of the new millenium.

Comments

[Jeff Jarvis]

I left this comment on Om's post:

Great list but I'm afraid you've missed a really, really big one:
Distributed information (that is, information found via search/XML/RSS no longer in a central place) affects media (news, classifieds, advertising). It's the growth of consumer control and the death of the marketplace and the mass market. That's disruptive not only to industries but to society (and in many good ways).

[Stewart Butterfield]

PMC Sierra. (Delete this comment :)

[Helmar]

__Fully__ agree with Jeff. Was just about to say the same. RSS is already becoming THE BIG THING, and as always, it appears as if the main players are still fast asleep. Not really surprising, because them getting it would imply a different attitude towards the market and its participants than they have displayed for the last few decades.

[scott partee]

I wonder if the Linux disrupts the operating system business should be open source disrupts the operating system business. I'm not sure, 'cause open source doesn't really mean the same thing to all people, but I see some more disruption coming beyond just OSes, for instance, apache is open source and it dominates the web server market, and I think we may eventually see a company come into the the open source Office Suite business (Apple, perhaps?) like Sun's trying to do with StarOffice and disrupt that segment of the software industry (currently dominated" by Microsoft Office).

Beyond that, the OS and applications business is going to get a run for its money from "Web 2.0" -- a distributed, network-based services "operating system" being built as we speak by the likes of Google. P2P, gmail, virtual remote file systems, web-browser based everything... this is eventually going to be the way we get our computing done.

So though I ramble, I think there's something "More" than just Linux there.

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[Bruce]

What the hell are you on about with this 'seven digital disruptions' rubbish?

Seems to me to be the rantings of conspiracy theorists with little else to do but find fault with most aspects of modern life.

Have you even considered that what you call 'digital disruptions' could actually be 'monopoly breakers'?

Rediculous subject. Rediculous comments.

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