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Investigating Disruptive Technology
The Emergence Of Ring Spinning In The American Textile Industry
Web Resources
Textile History:
- American Textile History Museum, Lowell, Massachusetts
- "Whole Cloth: Discovering Science and Technology Through American Textile History," curriculum at the Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, Smithsonian Institute, National Museum of American History
- Lowell National Historical Park, The National Park Service
- Slater Mill Historic Site, Pawtucket, Rhode Island
- Museum of American Textile History, North Andover, Massachusetts (contact information only)
Disruptive Technology:
- "Disruptive Technologies: A Credible Threat to Leading Programs in Continuing Medical Education?," The Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, Volume 18, pp. 69-80, an abstract of an article by Professor Clayton M. Christensen and Harvard Medical School Professor Elizabeth G. Armstrong
- "Nortel grows with 'disruptive technology'," an article by Joel Birnbaum in the Ottawa Citizen Online, Monday, April 12, 1999
- Interview with Wayne Green, who manages the Device Research and Applications Department, part of the ULSI Research Lab at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto. Mr. Green discusses new technologies under development, including why CMOS active pixel sensors are "a perfect example of a disruptive technology."
- "Physics and the Information Revolution," a speech by Joel Birnbaum, Hewlett-Packard Chief Scientist, delivered at the American Physical Society's 1999 Centennial Conference in March. In it, he discusses likely directions for information technology in the next decade and their possible impact on physicists.
- "Danger: Stealth Attack," Forbes Magazine cover article by Toni Mack and Mary Summers, January 25, 1999
- Harvard Business School Press interview with Professor Christensen following the publication of his book The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, 1997
- Business Week Q&A with Professor Clayton Christensen, March 15, 1999, plus excerpts from The Innovator's Dilemma
- Management Roundtable, Inc.(MRT) interview with Professor Christensen
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