Across the globe, the 21st century has become an era of disruption and exodus.
("Stop being afraid of failure and start embracing it," the organizers of FailCon, an annual conference, implore, suggesting that, in the era of disruption, innovators face unprecedented challenges. For instance: maybe you made the wrong hires?) When an established company succeeds, that's only because it hasn't yet failed.
The scene seemed to sum up in a startling way our era of disruption, of wealth, violence and chaos, where leisure and suffering can cohabit in strange ways, where the news headlines are all about terrorist acts or the drowning of children, but where acts of extraordinary generosity go unnoticed.
Breakthrough technologies like the smartphone, various sensors, and the ubiquity of connectivity have paved the way for a true era of disruption in the sex toy industry, transforming what has long been a store full of awkward, dick-shaped vibrators into shelves full of connected, intuitive, design-centric pleasure products.
We are about to enter an era of disruption where the enterprise isn't just mobile but is holistically connected in an entirely new way, with applications and real-time communications tools that link technology and teams to the daily processes and workflows of professional lives.
What I found this past year are twin themes: firstly, the great 21st century era of disruption continues unabated, with potential game-changers looming.
An International Bar Association report Achieving Justice and Human Rights in an Era of Climate Disruption (pdf) looked at each of these areas in some detail, and at several others: international migration law, environmental law, the law of state responsibility.
That's the stark truth in the era of "digital disruption".
Similarly to how decathletes are constantly retraining to stay in shape for their next competition in the hopes of being named the "world's greatest athlete," developers must constantly retrain themselves or risk becoming a dinosaur in an era of constant disruption.
On December 1st 2014 Bianca Jagger spoke at the launch of the International Bar Association report, 'Achieving Justice and Human Rights in an Era of Climate Disruption' at the House of Lords, London.
However, they add that they cannot conclude that the era of endocrine disruption in cricket frogs has come to an end, because the number of remaining cricket frogs is insufficient to permit sampling.
