THINKIN PODCAST: Is Tech The Answer To Disruption As Much As A Cause?

In partnership with Tortoise Media we recently hosted our first Disruption Thinkin. We were joined by Lilian Edwards, Professor of Law, Innovation and Society at Newcastle Law School and Taavi Kotka, entrepreneur & first CIO of Estonia to discuss the relationship between tech, disruption and society.

It was a wide ranging discussion, reflecting the breadth and complexity of the topic. Key points were:

Key points we heard from the discussion:

• Disruption is best viewed as a potential source of creativity and prosperity rather than as an intrinsic threat to the common good and the interests of business.
• Disruption is not new. It is one of the constants of the human story - as is clear from the respective impact of the printing press, electricity, the automobile and penicillin. What is new is the sheer scale and pace of change.