The Pebble and the Avalanche

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Current Revolutions in Business and Technology

by Dr. Moshe Yudkowsky,

author of The Pebble and The Avalanche: How Taking Things Apart Creates Revolutions

 

Fri, 2006-Jul-21, 17:03

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Good Coffee, No Jitters

I can't stand the taste of coffee but I love this invention: a portable, passive device to remove the caffeine from coffee, one cup at a time.

This is a perfect act of disaggregation. Until now, removing caffeine had to take place in a factory at the time of manufacture. This device removes the constraints of space and time; you can decaffeinate coffee at any time and at any place. Furthermore, the device breaks the mechanical constraints: prior to this, only specific blends were available decaffeinated; this device makes any blend available decaffeinated. Decaffeination becomes a component!

By all measures, this is a revolutionary innovation that provides convenience and flexibility, and ought to become quite popular. In practice, let's hope that the DeCaf Company, creators of the invention, will successfully bring their innovation to market, because they certainly deserve to succeed.

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