Comment from Jim Adler, Toyota AI Ventures

“Upward, not northward” – Edwin Abbott, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

The current fitful disruptive artificial intelligence era is a case study in Clayton Christensen’s business theory of innovation which is unfolding as we watch. Christensen’s Innovator’s Dilemma helps explain why incumbent market leaders cannot seem to jump on the new disruptive innovation, but instead continue with sustaining innovations that ultimately lose to new market insurgents.

A great example is Kodak missing the gigantic digital photography market,…