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STS LESSON Week 3B-1
STS LESSON Week 3B-1
b:
DISRUPTIVE INNOVATIONS
disruptive technology
•is one that displaces an established
technology and shakes up the
industry or a ground-breaking
product that creates a completely
new industry.
What is disrupted?
•Raw Material
•Process
•Medium
• Typewriter → Computer Word Processing →
Desktop Publishing
• Snail Mail → E-mail → Instant Messaging →
Social Networking
• Telegraph → Telephone → Cellphone →
Smartphones
• Desktop → Laptop → Tablets
• Inhouse server → Cloud Computing
• Paper References → Digital References
• Magnetic Media → Optical Discs → Flash Drives
→ Cloud Storage
• CRT → LCD → LED
• Chemical Photography → Digital Photography
• Offset Printing → Computer Printing
• 2D printing → 3D Printing
• Interactivity → Realities
• Gasoline cars→ Electric Cars
• Taxi→ Uber → Automated Cars
• Infrared → Bluetooth → WIFI
• Desktop App → Mobile App
• XRAY→ CT Scan → MRI
• Typed Commands → Click → Touch → Voice
• Plastic → Biodegradable Plastic
• Chemical → Organic
Int the future…
• Artificial Intelligence – personify everything
• 3D Printing – from tools to houses
• Space Colonization – sustainably live in space
• Advanced materials – superior characteristics
• IoT – Smart Cities
• Meatless Meats – protein-based ingredients
• Renewable energy – photovoltaic cells, ocean wave power
• Advanced Robotics – prosthetics, surgical system
• Next Generation Genomics – Gene Editing, CRISPR, STEMCELL
• Blockchain and Cryptocurrency
• Precision and Vertical Farming
Something to think about… write about…
• Discuss about a disruptive technology and its impact on the future of
work.