The disruption con: why big tech’s favourite buzzword is nonsense

How one magic word became a way of justifying Silicon Valley’s unconstrained power There are certain phrases that are central to the sway the tech industry holds over our collective imagination: they do not simply reflect our experience, they frame how we experience it in the first place. They sweep aside certain parts of the status quo, and leave other parts mysteriously untouched. They implicitly cast you as a stick-in-the-mud if you ask how much revolution someone is capable of when tha