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Forget Innovation, Who Is Your Chief Disruption Officer?

Patrick Hanlon Thinktopia
April 08, 2014
I am sitting in the back seat of a taxicab in New York City. The traffic is Midtown, stuck bumper to bumper.
“Everything is turned upside down!” the cabbie shouts, pumping his arm up and down in the air. “Five years ago it was not like this!” he cries.

The taxi driver is not talking about Midtown Manhattan traffic. He is from Alexandria. Not the Alexandria we know on the Washington Beltway, but the Alexandria in Egypt, named after Alexander the Great.
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Share and Ride Alike: Mobility Innovation for the Sharing Economy

February 12, 2014
The sharing economy is changing the way we understand transportation on a global scale. The city bus driver sees ridesharing apps like Uber and Lyft as a threat to his livelihood; meanwhile, major car manufacturers see the sharing trend jeopardizing private vehicle ownership.
But the rapid pick-up in ridesharing is likely to bridge the distance between people and their destinations, according to transportation technology experts, all while changing the culture of transportation to focus less on exclusivity and more on accessibility and efficiency.
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