{"id":825,"date":"2007-06-15T22:01:10","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T20:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/index.php\/archive\/bbc-interview-with-niklas-zennstroem\/"},"modified":"2007-06-15T22:07:16","modified_gmt":"2007-06-15T20:07:16","slug":"bbc-interview-with-niklas-zennstroem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/2007\/06\/bbc-interview-with-niklas-zennstroem\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC-interview with Niklas Zennstr&ouml;m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is interesting stuff, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/6729509.stm\">notes by Niklas Zennstr&ouml;m<\/a> at the BBC. A clearsighted guy by any measure (see more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/?s=zennstr%C3%B6m\">here<\/a> &#8230;):  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the first of a new series in which the world&#8217;s leading thinkers outline their personal vision of where technology could be leading us, the co-founder of net telephony service Skype, Niklas Zennstroem explains how the collaborative aspect of the internet will shape the technologies of the future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some notable quotes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For me, <strong>a disruptive technology is only worthwhile if it gives people something they didn&#8217;t have or couldn&#8217;t do before<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;] I&#8217;ve seen many technologies come and go.<br \/>\nThe ones that fail tend to be too hard to use and impenetrable to the average consumer.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;] What intrigues me in particular, are <strong>disruptive technologies<\/strong>. Disruption can come in many guises. It is at its most powerful when it comes in the form of a <strong>software platform<\/strong> that genuinely alters the status quo for the better.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;] And <strong>disruption &#8211; if it&#8217;s working &#8211; makes it even easier and more valuable<\/strong>. [&#8230;] a disruptive technology gives you what you want and at the same time, a better experience.<\/p>\n<p>It sounds so straightforward. <strong>However, the exciting part is when you try and build a business on the back of this disruption. It&#8217;s not always as easy as it sounds<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is interesting stuff, notes by Niklas Zennstr&ouml;m at the BBC. A clearsighted guy by any measure (see more here &#8230;): In the first of a new series in which the world&#8217;s leading thinkers outline their personal vision of where technology could be leading us, the co-founder of net telephony service Skype, Niklas Zennstroem explains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,11,4],"tags":[407],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}