A brief history of disruption: Technologies that upended enterprise IT

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“Smaller but cleaner.” That’s one of the predictions voiced in I Think We’re All Bozos on This Bus, the 1971 album by comedic legends the Firesign Theatre. “Bozos” describes a dystopian future in which the president of the United States is powered by a mainframe successfully hacked by the hero—cutting-edge technology for the era.

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