TMF 022 - What Counts as Innovation - Progressive vs Disruptive Tech

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What makes any tech product an innovation? A question that requires basic understanding of how progress is made with tech around us. In this episode I go over why you should care about progressive vs disruptive tech, how it impacts your daily life, and what to look out for when considering which tech is in fact innovative.
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Further learning and references
https://sknexus.com/tag/tech-blog/
https://www.britishcouncil.pk/library/digital-library
How the Internet of Things will explode in 5-10 years
IoT Devices - ARM
What Are Self-Driving Cars? The Technology Explained
The path to Autonomous Driving
Understanding Blockchain Technology
Web3 and NFTs Explained
NFTs, explained
Blockchain, explained
What Is a Transformer Model?
How Big Tech Coopts Disruption–and What to Do About It
Coopting Disruption - Stanford

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1. TMF 022 - What Counts as Innovation - Progressive vs Disruptive Tech (00:00:00)

2. What counts as an innovation in tech? (00:01:21)

3. Progressive vs Disruptive advancement in tech (00:01:44)

4. The cycle of advancement in tech (00:02:27)

5. Problems with 'innovation' fatigue (00:03:08)

6. Example - Progressive Tech - 1: Moore's Law and Processors/Chips Advancement (00:03:45)

7. Example - Progressive Tech - 2: Smartphone Camera Technology (00:04:22)

8. Example - Progressive Tech: Displays and Storage (00:05:26)

9. Common theme among progressing technology (00:05:57)

10. Example - Disruptive Tech: iPhone and Smartphone Revolution (00:06:18)

11. Disruptive tech alone doesn't mean innovation (00:07:51)

12. Example - Failure of Implementation - The advent of 5G (00:08:14)

13. Example - Failure of Approach - The promise of autonomous driving/self driving (00:12:27)

14. Example - Failure of Use Case Fit - Crypto and NFT never made it to masses (00:17:46)

15. How can Generative AI learn from failures of other disruptive technologies (00:19:58)

16. AI can be the future of search for masses (00:23:53)

17. Problems with current Google search ecosystem (00:25:22)

18. How to understand which tech is innovative vs which is not (00:27:04)

19. Follow up: Trust issues with tech (00:29:26)

20. After show - Tech ke Totkay: Get Access to thousands of books (00:31:00)