"They lived by the fundamental precept that leaving unrealized potential on the table letting something remain only good, when it can become great is a secular sin".
Jim Collins The author from Good to Great - Business Week
Disruptive technology or Kfitzat Haderech
Kefitzat Haderech (1) (Hebrew, StandardQəfiẓat haDéreḫ or Kfitzat haDérech) means,"jumping of the path/road/way",the English equivalent is the expression "short cut".
Shmuel Yosef Agnon - was a Hebrewnobel prize laureate writer and was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew fiction. Agnon incorporates the term in some of his work.
Thomas Samuel Kuhnwas an American intellectual who wrote extensively on the history of science and developed several important notions in the philosophy of science.
His thesis was that science was not a steady, cumulative acquisition of knowledge. He wrote that, it is "a series of peaceful interludes punctuated by intellectually violent revolutions." And in those revolutions, he wrote, "one conceptual world view is replaced by another."
Clayton M. Christensencoined the term Disruptive Technology . A disruptive technology or disruptive innovation is a term describing a technological innovation, product, or service that uses a "disruptive" technology to overturn the existing dominant technologies or status quo products in a market.
The term and its practical uses is getting a wider recognition:
The US army has created a special office for disruptive technology.
There are some interesting examples of disruptive technologies\Kfitzat Haderech technologies in the making today:
Tengion is a leader in the field of regenerative medicine. They are developing new human organs and tissues that are derived from a patient's own cells. This phenomena was predicted by the Sci-Fi literature more then 20 years ago. Preclinical Data Demonstrate Ability to Regenerate an Entire Bladder with Tengion Neo-Bladder Replacement™ www.tengion.com.
Ornim, Inc. is developing innovative solutions for non-invasive monitoring of vital signs of vital organs. Its breakthrough technology enables localized and quantitative measurements of physiological parameters within specific tissue regions. Ornim ’ s first application, Targeted Oximetry™, enables monitoring of oxygen saturation in deep tissues, in particular in the brain. Ornim was featured in the Technology review. Ornim got FDA approved. www.ornim.com
Plurality Ltd. is the developer of the Hypercore scalable, easily programmable, general-purpose, many-core processor. Hypercore can serve as a "general purpose accelerator," exploiting both fine- and coarse-grain parallelism present in many modern algorithms and applications to provide unparalleled cost- performance and power-performance ratios while retaining the complete flexibility of a software solution, including remote code updates. Plurality works with its customers to determine the most cost-effective way of incorporating Hypercore into into their productswww.plurality.com
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