Disruptive Technologies

Madagascar: New species --  Brown lemur

          This morning the odd and seemingly pointless LinkedIn professional networking service/website informed me that a former work colleague and friend aka Jerk No. 1 had added to his Professional Skills listing. 
 

          He now claims to be an expert in “Disruptive Technologies.”

Disruptive Technology House (?)

                 Obviously, on first, second and third consideration (and especially if you know him), this sounds embarrassing, stupid, pointless, meaningless, trivial and highly pretentious.

Disruptive Technology "S" Curve (??)

          Chief among this fellow's personal and professional vices is that he never returns telephone calls unless and until he believes to an immoral certainty that there’s something in it for him.  (Although this behavior is not unique to him, and can be said, in fact, to be a leitmotif of contemporary business practice, this guy has raised it to Nobel Prize theory and world champion practice levels.)

Disruptive Technology (???)  

          While on the surface he appears to be a pleasant and polite fellow, he is not -- he is simply unforgivably and unforgettably rude and self-centered.   Over the years, I have met a Veritable  Multitude of egocentric recording artists with whom my wife worked -- Big Rock Stars -- who are positively St. Theresa -like  -- paragons of humility, empathy and charity -- compared to this guy.  (Not to mention more talented and better-looking. I mention this because he's exceedingly vain.)

Cliff !

          A queer & coincidental corollary to this person’s mien and modus operandi is that the two of us have a mutual acquaintance (another former colleague), Jerk No. 2,  who is exactly as rude in exactly the same ways, and who vies for Jerk No. 1's # 1 (with a bullet) position on the Jerk Hit Parade.   

         On the rare occasions when one gains a telephonic or in--person audience with Jerk No. 1, he complains incessantly about Jerk No. 2, who has not yet publicly announced and self-identified as a Disruptive Technologies expert and, particularly, about his failure to return telephone calls.  (N.b.: I feel in my toes that this announcement is on the horizon; Jerk No. 2 is "all over the social media like a cheap suit", rather than bestriding it like a Colossus.)

 

R. Crumb And His Cheap Suit Serenaders !!

          Query: When two Disruptive Technologies experts get together (in a manner of speaking), do they cancel each other out?

Authentic First Principle !!!

          Around the dawn-hour LinkedIn's missive disturbed, distressed and disrupted my day, the Discovery Channel informed me that isolated living was an essential element in natural selection's  process of forming new species. 

Papua, New Guinea: New species -- Tube-nosed fruit bat

          Perhaps I have these guys all wrong. Perhaps Disruptive Technologies are in fact God’s work, promoting existential isolation and part of the evolutionary plan. 

          I would like to believe this is positive.    

          But the way things are going lately, that is very difficult to do.

Typhoon Roke -- 9/21/11

          Just possibly:

This is the way the world ends

This is the way the world ends

This is the way the world ends

Not with a bang,

Or a whimper, 

But Instead 

An Unreturned Telephone Call. 

Disrupted Technology

Isolated Living