Episode 093 — The Disruption of Everything

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Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6 • 832 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2016

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Ben and James discuss the difference between the IT era and the Internet Revolution, first in the context of newspapers and then in the context of society broadly. Presented by MailChimp Links Jack Shafer: What If the Newspaper Industry Made a Colossal Mistake? — Politico Ben Thompson: The IT Era and the Internet Revolution — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Snapchat Changes Publisher Monetization — Stratechery Ben Thompson: The Sports Linchpin — Stratechery Ben Thompson: TV Advertising’s Surprising Strength — and Inevitable Fall — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Friction — Stratechery Barack Obama, Neural Nets, Self-Driving Cars, and the Future of the World … Continue reading Episode 093 — The Disruption of Everything

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0:00.0	Hi, James. Ben, how are you? Better than you, apparently. Yeah, I know. Send me off to the tropics.
0:07.0	At first, I... You are, you are, how do they put it, fine, correct? I am fine. I am very fine right now.
0:13.9	You send me off to the tropics. At first, I thought I got a cold, and there's nothing more miserable
0:17.6	than getting a cold in the middle of the tropics.
0:22.1	And then it was persisting a little too long and it was a little too centered in my chest.
0:26.8	And I went to see the doctor and he's like, oh, actually, I think this might be pneumonia.
0:31.6	So I've started on antibiotics and I'm feeling, I started this morning and I'm already feeling a bunch better but yeah I just
0:38.0	laughed at you which is terrible but you're you're doing this whole like not working thing all
0:42.9	wrong apparently I am like I'm pretty sure this is not what people recommend you do everyone is
0:50.0	you know that some number of listeners are have just a little bit of shot shot and fraud after hearing that you were you were flitting off to Bali to take a yoga class.
1:00.3	Yeah, that's right.
1:01.3	And then I managed to pick up a massive chest infection.
1:04.6	Anyway, karma or something, I don't know.
1:08.1	Well, don't die.
1:09.2	Don't die at us.
1:10.2	But we appreciate you.
1:11.1	We appreciate you trooping through this podcast.
1:13.5	The show must go on, Ben.
1:15.0	The show must go on.
1:17.6	So speaking of the, speaking of the show going on, it will not go on next week.
1:22.4	So just a quick heads up to our listeners.
1:24.2	You will be traveling.
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