In my Disruptions column last week, Steve Cousins, Willow Garage's president and chief executive, predicted that telepresence robots would be the first robots to become mainstream.
When I published my Disruptions column this weekend about Minecraft, a relatively simple computer game that children today are utterly obsessed with, I was fully prepared for a barrage of angry e-mails and comments from readers.
As I noted in my Disruptions column this week, "How Driverless Cars Could Reshape Cities," the parking ticket could vanish from the future city as cars park themselves and refill parking meters electronically.
I've engaged with folk tales and fairy tales all my writing life, as part of my attempted disruption of the myths that environ and sometimes govern us, usually preferring to confront them on their own ground in the way that Aesop, before his execution, confronts his fables in "Aesop's Forest".
My last Disruptions column explored Microsoft's current predicament as it tries to transition from a company that prizes niche technical features in its products to one more like Apple, in which design and simplicity are paramount.
Until my mid-thirties, I managed my health problems without major disruption to my life.
I have the choice whether to see his crying fits as a disruption to "my plans" and "my precious time" or to see them as his communicating a need that I can fulfill.
In 2012, he published a memoir called "Deadlines and Disruption: My Turbulent Path From Print to Digital".
"I regret any disruption my accident last weekend may have caused members of the community and want to thank the local authorities," he said in a post.
His "Deadlines and Disruption: My Turbulent Path From Print to Digital" (McGraw Hill, $28) traces the impact of that revolution on his role as an editor and an academic dean.
