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Disruptive technologies - 12 of the best

Geoff Riley

29th September 2015

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This article rocks and I heartily recommend that students interested in the broader concept of creative destruction take time out to have a read. From autonomous vehicles to cloud computing and from next generation materials to advances in robotics, we appear on the surface to be living in in age where invention and innovation are not quite as dead as secular stagnationists would have us believe.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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