Learning Unit 4

2. made a mobile workforce possible and made it possible for people to connect to corporate networks and collaborate from anywhere. In many organizations, laptops replaced desktops.
8. displaced the typewriter and forever changed the way we work and communicate.
9. transformed the way we communicating, largely displacing letter-writing and disrupting the postal and greeting card industries.
10. lacks refinement, often has performance problems because it is new, appeals to a limited audience and may not yet have a proven practical application.

1. relies on incremental improvements to an already established technology.
3. has been a hugely disruptive technology in the business world, displacing many resources that would conventionally have been located in-house or provided as a traditionally hosted service.
4. has had a major impact on the way we communicate and -- especially for personal use -- has disrupted telephone, email, instant messaging and event planning.
5. made it possible for people to call us anywhere and disrupted the telecom industry.
6. largely replaced cell phones and PDAs and, because of the available apps, also disrupted: pocket cameras, MP3 players, calculators and GPS devices, among many other possibilities. For some mobile users, smartphones often replace laptops. Others prefer a tablet.
7. is one that displaces an established technology and shakes up the industry or a ground-breaking product that creates a completely new industry