Disruptive Techs Criteria
1. Meets previous needs.
2. Makes an aspect of your life easier:
a. Time saver
b. Energy saver
c. Money saver
d. Etc.
3. Leads to cleaner environment.
4. Uses fewer resources.
5. Displaces/replaces old established techs.
6. Availability
a. Mass consumption
7. Social Impact
Product to analyze: Aluminum Can
Is the aluminum can a disruptive technology?
Let us follow the criteria shown above to determine this:
1. Does it meet previous needs?
a. Before, it was very difficult to pressurize beverages and add gas to them and store these gasified drinks for an extended period of time. Although there are plastic bottles now that can be pressurized and can contain gasified beverages the aluminum can is cheaper and is easier to recycle and sterilize. Right now most companies use it for soft drinks and beers, being the most popular liquid container in the market. It does meet previous needs because before cans were invented, people used to drink gasified beverages from glass bottles and these were only accessible to specific social classes.
2. Does it make an aspect of your life easier?
a. The can is definitely a money saver, thus improving that aspect of my life. For example, I like root beer, they sell it now in both plastic bottles and cans, but the can is at least three times cheaper. I can enjoy the same amount of root beer for a cheaper price.
3. Does it lead to a cleaner environment?
a. Because cans are so easy to recycle, indigents seek for these cans in the streets and collect them, selling them later for a price. These cans are then converted into other cans or more aluminum products. Unlike plastic bottles, which are harder to recycle pollute the streets more than cans.
4. Does it use fewer resources?
a. Plastic bottles come from plastic, which comes from oil. Right now, there is enough supply of oil for eighty years maximum, showing that oil is running out. Aluminum, in the other hand, even though it is a non-renewable resource, has a greater supply therefore will last longer than oil. It takes more oil to make one bottle that aluminum to make cans.
5. Did it displace old established techs?
a. The can’s predecessor is the glass bottle. Even though the glass bottle has not gone obsolete yet, its use is very limited so we could say that it technically did not replace it but practically did.
6. Is it available? Is it consumed/used by the masses?
a. The can is a worldwide product used for every soft drink in the market. It is specially promoted with Coca Cola.
7. How did it impact society?
a. Cans revolutionized the world since their appearance in the market. Not only did they make drinks cheaper, but propelled the whole drinking industry into a new level. Level of greater demand, greater supply and happier costumers.
In conclusion, we could say the aluminum can is a disruptive technology. Taking into consideration all criteria mentioned above, a product that has practically replaced another, propelled a huge industry into success, a product that opened the doors of gasified drinks to people with limited economic resources, should be considered a disruptive technology.
1. Meets previous needs.
2. Makes an aspect of your life easier:
a. Time saver
b. Energy saver
c. Money saver
d. Etc.
3. Leads to cleaner environment.
4. Uses fewer resources.
5. Displaces/replaces old established techs.
6. Availability
a. Mass consumption
7. Social Impact
Product to analyze: Aluminum Can
Is the aluminum can a disruptive technology?
Let us follow the criteria shown above to determine this:
1. Does it meet previous needs?
a. Before, it was very difficult to pressurize beverages and add gas to them and store these gasified drinks for an extended period of time. Although there are plastic bottles now that can be pressurized and can contain gasified beverages the aluminum can is cheaper and is easier to recycle and sterilize. Right now most companies use it for soft drinks and beers, being the most popular liquid container in the market. It does meet previous needs because before cans were invented, people used to drink gasified beverages from glass bottles and these were only accessible to specific social classes.
2. Does it make an aspect of your life easier?
a. The can is definitely a money saver, thus improving that aspect of my life. For example, I like root beer, they sell it now in both plastic bottles and cans, but the can is at least three times cheaper. I can enjoy the same amount of root beer for a cheaper price.
3. Does it lead to a cleaner environment?
a. Because cans are so easy to recycle, indigents seek for these cans in the streets and collect them, selling them later for a price. These cans are then converted into other cans or more aluminum products. Unlike plastic bottles, which are harder to recycle pollute the streets more than cans.
4. Does it use fewer resources?
a. Plastic bottles come from plastic, which comes from oil. Right now, there is enough supply of oil for eighty years maximum, showing that oil is running out. Aluminum, in the other hand, even though it is a non-renewable resource, has a greater supply therefore will last longer than oil. It takes more oil to make one bottle that aluminum to make cans.
5. Did it displace old established techs?
a. The can’s predecessor is the glass bottle. Even though the glass bottle has not gone obsolete yet, its use is very limited so we could say that it technically did not replace it but practically did.
6. Is it available? Is it consumed/used by the masses?
a. The can is a worldwide product used for every soft drink in the market. It is specially promoted with Coca Cola.
7. How did it impact society?
a. Cans revolutionized the world since their appearance in the market. Not only did they make drinks cheaper, but propelled the whole drinking industry into a new level. Level of greater demand, greater supply and happier costumers.
In conclusion, we could say the aluminum can is a disruptive technology. Taking into consideration all criteria mentioned above, a product that has practically replaced another, propelled a huge industry into success, a product that opened the doors of gasified drinks to people with limited economic resources, should be considered a disruptive technology.
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