Quote to Note: Google Tells Europe to Embrace Disruption
September 23, 2014
The quote to note is from an EC Web page in an article called “Boosting Digital Europe.”
Europe needs to accept and embrace disruption. The old ways of doing things need to face competition that forces them to innovate. Uber, for example, is shaking up the taxi market — for the good. It offers riders convenience and cheaper fares. Understandably, the incumbent taxi industry is unhappy.
Context: French farmers setting fires. German political tensions increasing. Scotland’s voting to leave the United Kingdom. Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Spain. The PIIGS. Well, you get the idea.
And, of course, Google continues to wrestle with the EC’s decidedly un-Googley privacy concerns.
Google wants more disruption. That should play well in Austria and Switzerland, two nation states really into radical change.
Stephen E Arnold, September 23, 2014
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