{"id":328,"date":"2006-04-10T12:59:40","date_gmt":"2006-04-10T18:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/?p=328"},"modified":"2006-04-10T12:59:40","modified_gmt":"2006-04-10T18:59:40","slug":"conservative_in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=328","title":{"rendered":"Conservative innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is &#8220;conservative innovation&#8221; a contradiction in terms? Not at all, I argue in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicholasgcarr.com\/digital_renderings\/archives\/conservative_innovation.shtml\">my latest essay<\/a> at Digital Renderings, my online newsletter. Many of the most lucrative business innovations are fundamentally conservative, I suggest: they don&#8217;t create market disruptions but mend them.<\/p>\n<p>This essay originally appeared in <i>Strategy &#038; Business<\/i> about a year and a half ago, but I thought this might be a good time to recycle it. I sense that we&#8217;re probably at the point in the development of Web 2.0 when smart &#8220;disruption-menders&#8221; will begin to sweep up the money that the technology-obsessed disrupters have left on the table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is &#8220;conservative innovation&#8221; a contradiction in terms? Not at all, I argue in my latest essay at Digital Renderings, my online newsletter. Many of the most lucrative business innovations are fundamentally conservative, I suggest: they don&#8217;t create market disruptions but mend them. This essay originally appeared in Strategy &#038; Business about a year and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}