Lepore is attacking the implicit assumption that "disruptive" is inherently positive.
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But more broadly, more people are coming to feel that for them, for America as a whole, and indeed for most of the world, embracing disruptive innovation isn't working out very well.
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One obvious case of "disruptive innovation" turning sour, cited by Ms Lepore and others, is the disastrous role that financial-industry creativity played in causing the crash of 2008 and ensuing Great Recession. (2014) http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2014/07/disruptive-innovation
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But more broadly, more people are coming to feel that for them, for America as a whole, and indeed for most of the world, embracing disruptive innovation isn't working out very well.
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One obvious case of "disruptive innovation" turning sour, cited by Ms Lepore and others, is the disastrous role that financial-industry creativity played in causing the crash of 2008 and ensuing Great Recession. (2014) http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2014/07/disruptive-innovation
