Comments on: Douglas Rushkoff: What I think about Uber https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/douglas-rushkoff-what-i-think-about-uber/2015/10/26 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Wed, 28 Oct 2015 10:20:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Neelesh https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/douglas-rushkoff-what-i-think-about-uber/2015/10/26/comment-page-1#comment-1438757 Tue, 27 Oct 2015 04:19:07 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=52445#comment-1438757 Any technological disruption usually brings in its wake a set of stakeholders who will be adversely impacted. Such is the nature of creative destruction. Uber is challenging the often arbitrary and opportunistic pricing of conventional cab drivers throughout the world, as MOOCs are challenging the astronomical fees of universities.

As Nick Hanauer argues in this talk, the role of society and politics should be to work cooperatively with the tech disruptors to mitigate the adverse impact, (only when it is justified and morally correct to do so), and not simply vilify the disruptor! That mitigation work is NOT the disruptors alone. Putting the ‘blame’on the disruptor only is likely to stifle further innovation and creative destruction, instead of encouraging it. T

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