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Disrupt Or Be Disrupted

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Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog,

Either join the disruptors or prepare to be disrupted.

Disruptive technology is a tiresome cliche, as every Twitter/ AirBnB/ Uber/ Skype/etc. wannabe start-up declares itself disruptive. That the vast majority of self-congratulatory start-ups are over-hyped and derivative should not distract us from the larger reality that some technologies do in fact disrupt how things are done.

Fossil-fueled mechanization, for example, turned an overwhelmingly rural farming society into a highly urbanized services-dominated economy.
 
In the more recent past, CraigsList single-handedly turned the newspaper industry from an immensely profitable license to print money (via costly classified ads) to a struggling sector with an unclear future.
 
Digital file-sharing turned the $14 billion music industry into a $7 billion industry.
 
And now driverless vehicles are poised to disrupt the taxi and trucking sectors in ways few predicted.
 
The core idea of Disrupt or be Disrupted is that every sector and industry that avoids being disrupted just becomes a fatter target for disruption.
 
Higher education is a prime example. The industry has successfully staved off disruption by maintaining a lock on credentialing/accreditation--the famous signaling value of a college diploma, which verifies nothing about what the student learned or knows.
 
Now that student loan debt is $1.3 trillion and the administrative bloat of higher education can no longer be obscured, the industry is becoming a fatter, juicier target for massive technological disruption by the day.
 
As I outlined in my book The Nearly Free University and the Emerging Economy, it is not that difficult to lower costs by 90% and improve the actual education process.
 
Employers should receive more than an increasingly worthless signal--they should be offered an accreditation of each individual's actual skills and knowledge. This is self-evident, but impossible in the current cartel-state arrangement.
 
Healthcare is another sector with bloated costs and protected fiefdoms that is ripe for fundamental disruption. Reductions of 50% or more that lead to better overall health do not require whizbang science fiction advances; simply eliminating the paperwork and cartels and making patients responsible for their care and the costs of their treatments would be enough to unleash a disruptive revolution.
 
What few in these protected industries dare admit is the state/cartel cost structures are now so burdensome, the nation can no longer afford these services.Healthcare has risen from 5% of GDP to 19%. The more burdensome and intractable the systemic costs, the greater the gains to be reaped from disrupting the status quo.
 
The Military-Industrial/National Defense Complex is another sector ripe for massive disruption and reduction of costs. Compare the troubled $1 trillion F-35 aircraft program (which is increasingly looking like the most expensive weapons system failure in human history) with increasingly effective and cheaper drones: A Drone Has Never Linked Up With a Refueling Tanker Until Now.
 
In other words, protecting unaffordable, ineffective fiefdoms and cartels will be a losing strategy in the next 20 years. These costs will come down, one way or another, either by the erosion and collapse of the funding sources or by tech-enabled socio-economic disruptions.
 
That leaves everyone depending on any existing sector/industry that hasn't yet been turned upside down with a choice: either join the disruptors or prepare to be disrupted.
 

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Mon, 04/20/2015 - 11:00 | 6010832 HonkyShogun
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Can the good guys get a Soros-type benefactor for a change?

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 11:15 | 6010881 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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That would imply you need someone who is fundamentally wired different than the rest of the hairless apes. That is why the propaganda matrix works so well. The whole entire communication system aka internet, MSM, localities (i.e. how color and layouts of businesses are used) is one giant coordinated propaganda speaker blaring 24/7 at all your senses. The only way you break that monopoly is through knowledge starting with the fact that it does exist to be able to start to recognize it.

Color is a big part of it. Did you know that the part of the brain (mammalian) that is tied to your emotions aka hope/fear/love/hate etc is most responsive to the color blue. That is why cops wear blue (invoke fear with other cues to silently tell one how to interpret blue in that context). The neocortex the part that makes you ape/human responds to red color. That part is tied to apes violent war like impulses.

That is why Republicans/Neocons are red and war mongers and Democrats are blue aka whiny politically correct emotionally charge douches.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 11:25 | 6010913 HonkyShogun
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Damn. Well spoken and spot on.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 11:32 | 6010919 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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You have to be able accept the truth you are being manipulated 24/7 in this manner in order to start actually using your fucking brain and really thinking by asking simple questions like how are they trying to manipulate me or message being sent symbolically by using some color in context with an item for starters. Intelligence starts with asking real questions not pre-screened ones and not be afraid to follow through to find the answer.

Here is a simple one to ponder next time you go to the supermarket. Why are whole milk caps red, 2% milk dark blue, 1% light blue and skim milk yellow.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 11:55 | 6010990 Mike Honcho
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Here is a simple one to ponder next time you go to the supermarket. Why are whole milk caps red, 2% milk dark blue, 1% light blue and skim milk yellow? - coersion into purchasing the most profitable of the products

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 13:07 | 6011172 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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In terms of double speak yes, all depends the context of the word product.

Let's start with acronyms

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/a-history-of-acronyms/

Now take the term NeoCon are we talking about Neo Conservative or a Neocortex Conjob? If you try the it quacks like a duck, walks like a duck approach then which one is the meaning, both are linguistically valid. That is where the perception part comes in. The brain is always trying to find one right answer so manipulating the cues steers it to whichever meaning you want someone to perceive it as.

With said back to milk and caps.

Your neocortex (human/ape/conscious thinking) brain is the most fatty of the 3 brains and receptive to the color red.

Your mammalian brain (ego/emotion) is less fatty and most receptive to the color blue.

Your reptilian brain (memory) is the least fatty and most receptive to the color yellow.

Why 2 blues

It has to do with active and passive colors.

http://worqx.com/color/color_wheel.htm

It also implies your mammalian brain doesn't operate independently of the other 2. So color manipulation determines how it interacts with the other 2. It is almost always a 2 against 1 deal meaning you control the 2 you control the perception aka meaning aka propaganda.

Ego/emotion is drugs the propaganda is drug addiction.

Ego and self are not the same thing, your self is your memory aka knowledge you learn through experience that defines who you are not your ego as how you feel about yourself and knowledge.

So yes that is the product they are selling right there since that requires food of the right fat content for those parts of the brain to function.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 13:26 | 6011256 cnmcdee
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Pretty soon a pilotless drone fuelling tanker will fuel the drone plane, with the fuel being delivered by a robotically  controlled truck - to fly across the world to attack a robotically controlled missile battery, and it's robotically controlled fuelling truck.

But the bigger question is what happens when tactically it is meaningless to even bother attacking the humans - bystanders to a robotic war.

Meanwhile the designers will be looking at how do they train their children of drones and bots to require less (and eventually no) supervision..

 

dada da dadumm dada da dummm...

 

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 15:08 | 6011639 MonetaryApostate
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I like the way you think. ^.^

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 13:47 | 6011312 ajax
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@ D.C. Howe  Nicely put. WS Burroughs has you beat by decades: an excerpt of "Pay Color" from "Nova Express"

"Boards Syndicates Governments of the earth Pay - Pay back the Color you stole - Pay Red - Pay back the red you stole for lying flags and your Coca-Cola signs - Pay that red back to penis and blood and sun - Pay Blue - Pay back ther blue you stole and bottled and doled out in eyedroppers of junk - Pay back the blue you stole for your police uniforms - Pay that blue back to the sea and sky and eyes of the earth - Pay Green - pay back the green you stole for your money - And you, Dead Hand Stretching The Vegetable People, pay back the green you stole for your Green Deal to sell out peoples of the earth and board the first lifeboat in drag - Pay that green back to flowers and jungle river and sky"

http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~burdette/projects/readings/burroughs_nova_ex...

Gotta love Burroughs...

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 11:22 | 6010906 KnuckleDragger-X
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I'm just wondering how big an IPO price I could get for a factory to build T-1000's......

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 13:28 | 6011262 cnmcdee
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Considering that the 5 hotdog trucks were worth $15 million a piece 5 robotic hotdog trucks now we are talking some kick ass shit..  Imagine truck drives itself up and cooks you a perfectly done hotdog with a servo dispatched condiment dispensers with ice cream to boot.  The IPO would have to be in the *billions*..

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 16:11 | 6011978 Panem et Circus
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You don't need a gatekeeper/benefactor, you have crowdfunding now.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 11:01 | 6010834 Your guess is a...
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The music industry wasn't controlled by the government, and demand certainly wasn't, unlike the military and healthcare goliaths. You can't make people buy moar music but you can make them spend more on healthcare and defense. The government will fix the barriers to entry to those two mega-markets forever - try to compete with either and you'll end up in jail and bankrupt.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 11:04 | 6010848 Syrin
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The music industry due to piracy and huge corporate entities not paying artists a dime (looking at you Spoitify, Pandora, YouTube)

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 11:20 | 6010897 Your guess is a...
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The music industry wasn't a 'victim' of piracy; it caused it itself. It saw digitising all the back catalogues as a free and easy way to make fat $$$ without all of the hassle of promoting temperamental artists and 'encouraging' ($$$$) DJs to play the stuff. The CD was what brought down the music industry, and the execs and producers never thought about how future artists and record companies could cope with the new technology. 

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 13:12 | 6011221 ThirdWorldDude
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That and the rise of internet technology. While artists in the 80's and early 90's didn't have much choice and had to have a major contract with a big industry player which guaranteed world-wide promotions, tours and sales, internet makes it all a bedroom project. And the artists get to keep a lion's share of what they earn.

 

How Radiohead's Business Model Shook Up the Music Industry

In the eternal words of Thom Yorke, music industry and it's streaming services like Spotify & iTunes are the last fart of a dieing corpse.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 11:28 | 6010924 Kirk2NCC1701
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@ Your Guess is as... "The music industry wasn't a 'victim' of piracy; it caused it itself. It saw digitising all the back catalogues as a free and easy way to make fat $$$ without all of the hassle of promoting temperamental artists and 'encouraging' ($$$$) DJs to play the stuff."

This can be taken further with the fact that they scour for talent via shows (The Voice, America's got Talent...). I strongly suspect that if you were to read the fine print that the candidates sign, they become a captive client of the show, making knobs like Simon Cowell even richer and more obnoxious.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 11:52 | 6010982 Your guess is a...
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Talent shows are the biggest one-way bet since BTFD became a 'thing'. You find a star and you already own the rights to the auditions and you also own their soul. I imagine if you don't play ball with (S)Cowell you find you're very quickly shunned by every big producer in the Biz, you get quickly forgotten and that tit is already lining up his next 'star'. 

 

No, as an aspiring artist you'll sign anything to reach your target audience, maybe down the line you'll have enough momentum to break away from your shackles and in the meantime you'll get some punanny. While you're getting some, (S)Cowell will make his moar millions and be lining up the next slub for the rocket to eventual obscurity and faded dreams. It's a Win-Win, except for the pathetic audience who would jump up and down in idiotic excitement to the latest Transformers theme tune.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 13:06 | 6011192 ersatz007
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to say that the music industry wasn't a victim of piracy is as absurd as blaming it solely on piracy.  again, the cause was a combination of factors - not just one thing.  piracy was one cause (many people feel music should be free), so was the record industry's and some mainstream artists' inability/unwillingness to adapt to the new technology/business model, digitizing the catalogues, etc...

what happened to music, professional photography, and professional journalism is going to happen to nearly every industry - even those that have nothing to do with providing 'content' or 'entertainment'.  algorithms are used to trade stocks.  brokers, except in rare & specialized cases, will eventually become a thing of the past.  same thing with surgeons - machines will do it (might have some specialized doctors for diagnosis).  lawyers, garbagemen, waiters/waitresses, taxi drivers, airline pilots (although we'll probably have a human for 'override' purposes), construction, you name it, eventually it's going to be 'digitized' either in the form of online resources available for next to nothing or in the form of robots/machines that will do more and more menial labor.  

the only people that will have jobs are the people who own the machines and/or digital networks that make all the above possible. 

the upside for working musicians is they have had to adapt sooner than everyone else to this new 'digital' economy.  it's going to be interesting to see how non-creative people react/adapt to their bread and butter going down the shitter...  

 

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 14:37 | 6011481 Things that go bump
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You no longer need a publisher to write fiction or nonfiction either. You no longer have to send your short story to magazines and hope that sooner or later someone will buy it for their rag. You can publish right to Kindle or Nook on your own. This completely cuts out any middle man such as an agent. I have published a nonfiction book and am plotting out a short story. Amazon gets its cut, of course, and I haven't made much to date, but I'll always be entitled to a royalty on each purchase.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 16:15 | 6011996 Panem et Circus
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Actually, the Military Industrial complex is facing growth not destruction from the internet fueld "disruption". The same inherrant ability to crowdsource donors, volunteers, etc that enables individuals and small business startups is enabling non state actors to do things that only large state actors could do before like fight wars.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 11:02 | 6010836 Dragon HAwk
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Avoid Crowds, of all Kinds,   great advice for all preppers

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 12:24 | 6011087 Apply Force
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Ha - just skimming and I read your comment as "Avoid Cowards of all kinds..." 

I think I like that better - my psychological bias on display

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 11:05 | 6010845 NoDebt
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But if they disrupt higher education how are we going to indoctrinate our young to understand that government is more important than people and the more of it we can get, the better?  How will they ever understand the importance of redressing every minor grievance to their always-sympathetic government?  Who will teach them that militarizing the police is a GOOD thing, even though it might be a little scary when they're kicking in your door at 1am without a warrant to a arrest you for the parking ticket your neighbor next door actually got?  Who will teach them of the dangers of trying to read the Constitution and take its words literally?

My God, society would completely fall apart!  It would be anarchy!

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 11:11 | 6010860 markovchainey
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Don't worry NoDebt, there are still the K-12 schools to handle all our indoctrination needs!

 

<dogs and cats living together!>

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 11:17 | 6010886 NoDebt
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All of our betters who run the world- lawyers, bankers, politicians, even lowly "journalists" come from colleges/universitites.  

This is important work these institutions of higher learning are doing.  It would be dangerous to "disrupt" them.  I think you would agree that when all conservative ideas were completely eradicated in higher education, our society improved immeasurably.  We would be in serious danger of reverting back to the "bad old days" if we go mucking around with how colleges and universities work.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 11:41 | 6010954 markovchainey
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Damn, good point!

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 14:41 | 6011507 Things that go bump
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Such idiology is like a pendulum; it swings left and then it swings right. Don't worry, your particular bias will come back into vogue eventually.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 15:23 | 6011717 MonetaryApostate
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Has anyone ever stopped to consider how our matriarchal society is wrecking things at all?

(Michelle Obama's Lunch Program, men getting raped sideways in courts, or how women have most of the upper office positions, and now one may become president, wtf?)

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 12:27 | 6011101 PTR
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dogs and cats?  The walls in the 53th Precinct have started bleeding?  If so, OH SHIT! RUN!

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 11:04 | 6010846 annabelleballow
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Hopefully something disrupts the Banking Industry.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 11:13 | 6010872 RyeWhiskey
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It's the banking industry that is standing behind and financing every single disruptor out there.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 14:38 | 6011489 hot sauce technician
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Not quite. The internet has allowed bourgeois and neo-serfs to gain access to old bankster robber-baron wealth. And many of these nouveau riche have no allegiance to banks or states and are the same backers of the many disruptors out there... Peter Theil is a good example. Can you imagine a Rothschild financing an attempt to establish settlements beyond the jurisdiction of any sovereign state? I think not. Also, investments in Bitcoin startups have skyrocketed over the past year and a half. Who's financing THAT? The banks?

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 16:01 | 6011921 RyeWhiskey
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Of course. Who else need digitally traceable currency for the masses.
The banks and the oligarchy.
"Disruption" is nonsense, a hi-jacked word that now means nothing but monopolization by special interests. Sure, we are told it's different but it isn't.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 12:06 | 6011026 Al Capowned
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Seriosuly have you not heard of Bitcoin? It has the potential to be the most disruptive technology the world has ever seen, similar to the internet.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 12:26 | 6011099 Apply Force
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Second Class - a tick without a host dies slowly.  Be the change you seek

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 12:29 | 6011109 PTR
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Tip that scale, it all falls to the other side.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 11:10 | 6010861 Shitgum Suicide
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Speaking of disrupted, did anyone else hear about the Fence jumper at the white house last night?

http://m.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2563296

Even more interesting is this quote from the article.

"The intruder — whose gender, name and age was not released — was carrying a package that was examined and found not to be harmless, Leary said early Monday morning."

You can just smell it the air can't you?

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 12:34 | 6011125 atthelake
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As a matter of fact, whern I woke, this morning, I turned on the mainstream news, fearing something had happened.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 15:26 | 6011744 MonetaryApostate
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8ft fence, look at these fooking morons, anyone with a decent jump ability can get up an 8ft fence, and these people lead this nation?

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 11:11 | 6010865 RyeWhiskey
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Disruption. Another word for oligarchic takeover.
Walmart. The biggest "disruptor".
When words are hijacked, content is irrelevant.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 11:26 | 6010916 observiate
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maybe, but usually "disrupt", in this sense, intimates those without power taking power away from those with power.  yes, walmart and those of the type have and always will attempt requisition and re-definition of the words.  disrupt can never be a permanent term, because even good ole walmart was a disruptor in the '60's and '70's when they revolutionized cheap retail goods.  now they have a certain amount of "power" obviously.  they and others like will not have the power forever.  the more history one reads the more it would seem this becomes clearer and clearer.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 11:53 | 6010945 Kirk2NCC1701
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+1 for "When words are hijacked, content is irrelevant."

Have been saying for a long time that, before engaging anyone in a debate, one must always ask (oneself) several basic question, to make sure the debate moves forward in the right direction. This includes:

- Is this Relevant?
- Is this the 'rights' Talking Point or Issue, or is somebody trying to hijack/steer the Debate in the wrong direction, by Word/Phrase Substitution (using Weasel words or PC words/phrases)? If so, they will control and likely win the Debate.
- Is the Data, Info and Analysis correct?
- Are the Assumptions correct?
- Are the right questions being asked, or avoided at all cost?

In trials, lawyers constantly joust over this, i.e. trying to Define & Frame the (legal) issue, and challenge the Relevancy of talking points.

Astute players need to do this also, i.e. become active listeners, readers and participants.
In the words of philosopher Carlin, on 'Euphemism'... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuEQixrBKCc

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 14:53 | 6011566 Things that go bump
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Words have power. I've said this before and until you understand this you can't understand how you are being manipulated. Words have a denotation, which is its meaning, but words also have a conotation, which is its emotional weight. Some words have more emotional weight than others. Consider the words fragrance and stench. Their meaning is the same, but one conotes something pleasant while the other conotes something foul. This has been understood for decades and used by advertising to get us to buy their products. For some time now it has been used by other engineers, trained in linguistic subtlety, to craft our opinions.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 15:28 | 6011756 MonetaryApostate
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Words have power only because of belief, if you believe those words, then yes, they have power, if you don't, well then there is no power, but I do see your point.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 19:41 | 6012785 Things that go bump
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You seem to have actually missed the point. The connotation of a word is something more viseral than belief. It hits you in the emotions. You are writing about belief or disbelief in a statement. I am writing about the words chosen. I complained of this very thing some time ago when the author of an article posted on this site chose to use the word "disinflation" rather than the more accurate descriptor "deflation" to avoid a word that carries an unfortunate connotation. The Great Depression was so named because Roosevelt wanted to avoid the use of the word "panic," which is what such occurances had been previously called. 

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 11:20 | 6010896 observiate
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great post. i would opine that protecting ineffective fiefdoms and cartels has and always will be a losing strategy.  however the entrenched nature of them also has almost always had the effect of deceiving the populace or at least portions of the populace into believing that are not ineffective and/or there is nothing they can do about it.  yet there has also always been those who know the truth.  the fight is never-ending.  and it is a worthy fight. 

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 15:29 | 6011765 MonetaryApostate
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The cartel from South America is not something America can any longer choose to ignore, technology won't disrupt that because they are far too deep inside our country now!

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 11:24 | 6010910 JoeTurner
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I get the sense that there is not as much 'disurption' as there is incremental improvement to existing technologies based on REAL disruptive innovations of the past (i.e. internal combustion engines)

Uber, AirBnB etc. are just the latest speculative orgies based on easy money sloshing around...perhaps civilation will get lucky and something really transfomational will be invented before the next bubble pops...

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 15:30 | 6011771 MonetaryApostate
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Great point.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 11:40 | 6010947 Icelandicsaga.....
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I think Catherine Austin Fitts has addressed something similar to what Smith is talking about . on a whole other level . the Breakaway Civilization is a bit on the sci fi side... that has to do with black ops budget existence since World War II that has gone into technologies most do not have a clue about .. interesting and something to pursue .. are the inner insiders onto building  an entire new system . civilization .. according to some .. programs exist that evolved since World War II - mainly in the hands of a technocratic .. monied interest cabal .. in this one video.. .. Dr. Joseph Farrell goes into the entire Nazi connection .. the corporate relationships .. the ties between US financial backers and the Third Reich and what has evovled out of that era and where all this banker control .. insider control is going .. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f7wOxw4fQI          Fitts was former asst. Housing Sec. under Bush I .. she was persecuted by the system but won her case.. driven nearly into bankruptcy and discusses economic fascism better than most... She discusses how you sell fascism . how Obama gifted bankers . and how the looting of America works... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--_rOdnO_tI   and discussion of the "Tape Worm Economy' ... as a former insider .. she has a lot to add to anyone's understanding of how we got here from THERE and more important .. where all this is going ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njt-63oPNZg my favorite is when Farrell goes into the BIS .. in a big way. The BIS ... Allen Dulles .. CIA .. Sullivan and Cromwell . and all the connections in the Brotherhood of the Bell. 

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 11:40 | 6010951 Matt
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Interesting example, comparing one MIC Lockheed Martin Project to another MIC Northrup-Grumman project. The difference is not disruption, it is the goals set by the client (the government).

If you tell them to manufacture a single jet that is going to have all the capabilities of all the other models all combined into a single unit, rather than building a tool for a specific purpose, that's what you get.

I'm not sure having dozens of PMC running around would be better.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 11:41 | 6010955 Judy Tenuta
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Another way to reduce health care costs is to cut off the legal whores and ivory tower parasites that doctors and other providers have to waste resources on. And besides being a useless waste of time and money, just think of how many poor trees have been sacrificed for all that HIPPA paperwork. Now with electronic medical records, the gov can learn anything it needs to know about you anyway...but signing those HIPPA papers assuring that our records are safe will make us feel assured that our gov is always looking out for us.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 11:41 | 6010956 Consuelo
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The biggest 'disruptive' event is going to be how U.S. society and its overlords react when the reset takes place.   Somehow, I can't picture Mr. goatee metrosexual software dude on his way to the cubicle in a Prius, getting there & back in one piece... 

 

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 11:45 | 6010964 Lesthan0
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kodak and polaroid et al also should get a mention.  I recall a saying about Eating you lunch before someone else does.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 15:31 | 6011777 MonetaryApostate
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Did anyone stop to consider that the corporations of yesterday are being replaced by the corporations owned same people who owned the former ones, and that technology is only a means for the wealthy to make more money for less?

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 11:49 | 6010978 firewolfsblog
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Disruption as a means to lower costs and boost revenues are a win win in my book. Fuck the system.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 11:56 | 6010997 sam site
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A major disruption in health care is coming after the sickest and most dependent on Big Government of the public die off in the next financial crisis from self-induced stress.  The less toxic and young survivors are going to usher in a new far healthier society.

The problem with today's healthcare is government-protected monopoly medicine.  It's unaffordable because there is no competition between the various types of medicine. 

Our state governments gave Ambulance or Allopathic medicine a government-protected monopoly to diagnose, treat and cure ALL medical afflictions including degenerative diseases that represents 90% of medical care. 

Much of the world is using cheap Chinese, Naturopathic, Homeopathic or Ayurvedic medicine and they aren’t dropping like flies like Americans want to believe. 

Monopoly Allopathic Medicine has duped Americans into believing that disease strikes randomly like lightning from germs or genetics and that we have little control over our health. 

Louis Pasteur, the founder of the Germ Theory of Disease, finally admitted on his death bed that germs don’t cause disease but the terrain is the chief cause.

The terrain is the state of cleanliness or toxicity in the body that enables our immune system to reverse or prevent disease.  Monopoly Allopathic Medicine completely ignores toxicity, detoxification, nutrition and natural immunity as all the alternative medicines emphasize.     

With government-protected Monopoly Medicine, it's all about managing disease not curing it, maximizing profits and getting patients on daily "maintenance" drugs, using costly surgery and interventions with toxic vaccines.  

A massive disruption is coming in health care.  In fact investors who have Big Pharma stock should sell ASAP because when the dollar devalues, corrupt agencies

like the FDA and state medical boards that protect the "Standard of Care" favoring Big Pharma and Monopoly Medicine will not be able to continue protecting these corrupt industries from competition. 

Like the corrupt Fed, these are the last days of government-protected monopolies and if they had to compete with cheaper, safer and far more effective natural medicine like Homeopathy, Naturopathy or Chinese Medicine they would likely be starved for patients. 

The last time the dangerous Allopaths competed in the marketplace in 1900 they could only attract 14% of patients. 

The public was afraid of them and fortunately there was back then a free market in medicine so the public chose affordable, safe and vastly more effective natural medicine. 

In the 1918 Flu Pandemic, the Allopaths lost 30% of their patients.  The Alternative Medical providers lost 1%. 

Allopaths were known as the Quicks (later Quacks) for the quicksilver or mercury they poisoned their patients with. 

They're still poisoning patients with toxic mercury in vaccines along with aluminum, MSG and formaldehyde embalming fluid.  And that's besides the toxic infectious agent that starts a brushfire in the brain for life causing Autism and Schitzophrenia. 

They're also poisoning and killing patients with chemotherapy for cancer that's a derivative of WW1 mustard gas. 

Because we allowed the European Black Nobility - Organized Crime through their Jesuit, Zionist and Masonic agents to take over our money and medicine around 1913, we allowed the quacks of the day, a government-protected monopoly and drove out the true healers. 

The sheeple to this day still believe the myth that Ambulance Allopathic Medicine earned it's government-protected monopoly status because it's the only "proven and scientific" medicine. 

Nothing could be further from the truth.  It's a vicious, cruel lie that 90% of Americans not only believe, but even defend because they have been chemically dumbed-down with vaccines, fluoridated water and GMO food to name a few. 

Forget about government-protected monopolies containing costs and becoming affordable, our hidden rulers are getting a huge belly laugh on their way to the bank as they have handicapped the public with poisons in the food, air, water and medicine. 

Visit naturalnews.com and mercola.com and educate and treat yourself with cheap, safe and effective natural medicine that cleans up your immune system terrain and turns on powerful prevention. 

Empower yourself and dispel the myth, power and fraud of Monopoly Quack Medicine. 

Allopathic Ambulance Medicine specializes in stabilizing traumatic accidents and that’s what they should be restricted to doing. 

PBS doctor Andrew Weil MD says that Allopathic Medicine has no business treating degenerative diseases just as natural medicine has no business treating accident victims. 

We’ve all been duped by our organized-crime hidden rulers into believing false paradigms about medicine and money. 

It’s time we woke up and started controlling our economic future and health.  We will all find that the body is enormously powerful in keeping us healthy without the poisoning agendas and interventions of corrupt men.

See this video describing this handicapping agenda by neurosurgeon Dr Russell Blaylock MD for a real eye-opener.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB3xcN_eoPo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Health care is unaffordable because there is no competition between the various types of medicine. 

It's our state governments that gave Ambulance or Allopathic medicine a government-protected monopoly to diagnose, treat and cure ALL medical afflictions including degenerative diseases that represents 90% of medical care. 

The rest of the world is using cheap Chinese, Naturopathic, Homeopathic or Ayurvedic medicine and they aren’t dropping like flies like Americans want to believe. 

Monopoly Allopathic Medicine has duped Americans into believing that disease strikes randomly like lightning from germs or genetics and that we have little control over our health. 

Louis Pasteur finally admitted on his death bed that germs don’t cause disease but the terrain is the chief cause.

The terrain is the state of cleanliness or toxicity in the body that enables our immune system to reverse or prevent disease unencumbered.     

With government-protected Monopoly Medicine it's all about maximizing profits and getting patients on daily "maintenance" drugs.  There's no interest in cures or cost containment.

In fact investors who have Big Pharma stock should sell ASAP because when the dollar devalues, corrupt agencies like the FDA that protect the "Standard of Care" favoring Big Pharma and Monopoly Quack Medicine will probably decline also. 

Like the corrupt Fed, these are the last days of government-protected monopolies and if they had to compete with cheaper, safer and far more effective natural medicine like Homeopathy, Naturopathy or Chinese Medicine they would likely be starved for patients. 

The last time the dangerous Allopaths competed in the marketplace in 1900 they could only attract 14% of patients. 

The public was afraid of them and fortunately there was still a free market in medicine so the public chose affordable, safe and vastly more effective natural medicine. 

In the 1918 Flu Pandemic, the Allopaths lost 30% of their patients.  The Alternative Medical providers lost 1%. 

Allopaths were known as the Quicks (later Quacks) for the quicksilver or mercury they poisoned their patients with. 

They're still poisoning patients with toxic mercury in vaccines along with aluminum, MSG and formaldehyde embalming fluid. 

They're also poisoning and killing patients with chemotherapy for cancer that's a derivative of WW1 mustard gas. 

Because we allowed EU Organized Crime through their Jesuit, Zionist and Masonic agents to take over our money and medicine around 1913, we allowed the Quacks of the day, a government-protected monopoly and drove out the true healers. 

The sheeple to this day still believe the myth that Ambulance Allopathic Medicine earned it's government-protected monopoly status because it's the only "proven and scientific" medicine. 

Nothing could be further from the truth.  It's a vicious, cruel lie that 90% of Americans not only believe, but even defend. 

Forget about government-protected monopolies containing costs and becoming affordable, our hidden rulers are getting a huge belly laugh on their way to the bank. 

Visit naturalnews.com and mercola.com and educate and treat yourself with cheap, safe and effective natural medicine that cleans up your immune system terrain and turns on powerful prevention. 

Empower yourself and dispel the myth, power and fraud of Monopoly Quack Medicine. 

Allopathic ambulance medicine specializes in stabilizing traumatic accidents and that’s what they should be restricted to doing. 

PBS doctor Andrew Weil MD says that Allopathic Medicine has no business treating degenerative diseases just as natural medicine has no business treating accident victims. 

We’ve all been duped by our organized-crime hidden rulers into believing false paradigms about medicine and money. 

It’s time we woke up and started controlling our economic future and health.  We will all find that the body is enormously powerful in keeping us healthy without the poisoning agendas and interventions of corrupt men.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 12:08 | 6011030 weburke
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eating is key, good luck to the newbie in their studies, what a time period. 

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 12:31 | 6011117 PTR
PTR's picture

Good points, but just TFL to read in one lunchtime session.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 14:43 | 6011520 crisrose
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I would upvote you 1000 times if I could.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 12:03 | 6011021 Kirk2NCC1701
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The other word that Mgmt Consultants have word-smithed and indoctrinated executives on some MBA class or seminar, and which have thus made their way into corporate speak-easy, is:

"DEMOCRATIZING..." e.g. HP used to say "We Democratized printing".

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 21:10 | 6013099 RMolineaux
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Quite right.  HP has "democratized" printing by monopolizing the supply of replacement ink cartridges at outrageous prices.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 14:17 | 6011412 Jack Burton
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Healthcare is another sector with bloated costs and protected fiefdoms that is ripe for fundamental disruption. Reductions of 50% or more that lead to better overall health do not require whizbang science fiction advances; simply eliminating the paperwork and cartels and making patients responsible for their care and the costs of their treatments would be enough to unleash a disruptive revolution.

Great idea. I have argued this before. If we return to a doctor patient relationship where there are no middle men, when I see the Doc and he hands me a bill. Nobody gets inbetween us, and the Doc knows he must take into account his patients need to pay the bill. What happens when we get really sick, as nearly everyone is going to before death, that is the question. But basic health and wellness care should be the patients sole responsibility and the Docs should all be private practice.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 21:05 | 6013084 RMolineaux
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I could not disagree more.  The big stumbling block to applying market notions to health care is the fact that the patient is in no position to evaluate the necessity for a particular procedure or medicine.  Over a long period of observation, I have seen the arrival and departure of various fads in medical procedures that later examination have been shown to be useless and often dangerous.  These were promoted by private medical practitioners looking to expand their profits.  Private medicine puts the patient at the mercy of one practitioner who is often venal or incompetent.  "Second opinions" are often set up in a mutual back-scratching arrangement between two practitioners.  Countries that have set up socialized medical care systems have managed to upgrade the overall health of the population at costs much lower than the current US experience.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 21:24 | 6013121 RMolineaux
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I am waiting for the Air Force to set up staged dogfights between manned and unmanned fighter planes.   Theoretically, it should be possible for an unmanned plane to easily defeat a manned one, as the former can tolerate maneuvers that a human pilot cannot withstand.  But I am afraid I will wait a long time, since the flyboys and their manufacturer friends form a powerfull lobby.

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