Disruption is Good

Disruptive Technologies come in various guises, and it’s a term which has negative connotations when you first hear it. But, it appears to be a good thing, or at least a very popular thing. Digital photography is one example.

Althought the quality of digital cameras is inferior to traditional film based cameras, their popularity greatly outranks their more-mature counterparts.

And so it is with Skype, possibly the ultimate example of a ‘disruptive technology’, albeit in a slightly different way.Skype is a FREE piece of software which saves you money on phone calls. Simply download it onto your PC and use your PC to call another Skype user for FREE over your broadband connection. And you can also use Skype via your PC to call a normal landline at greatly reduced prices.

So there we have it, a FREE piece of software which saves you money, and has already made a fortune for its developers (having just sold it to Ebay for £1.4bn). Try taking a business plan like that to your own Bank Manager and see his reaction.

Its good to see that not everything that’s ‘too good to be true’, isn’t.