Adapting to new technologies may be as important as the tech

GUEST  QUARTERS: Cranston Airbnb host Eric Weiner readies one of two rooms he rents to travelers. / PBN PHOTO/ MICHAEL  SALERNO
GUEST QUARTERS: Cranston Airbnb host Eric Weiner readies one of two rooms he rents to travelers. / PBN PHOTO/ MICHAEL SALERNO

Disruption is a buzzword in current academic research, but it can have real-life implications that often are quite powerful. Uber, the Web-based ride-sharing service, complements and supplants licensed taxi service and undercuts the economics of the established commercial transportation market. Airbnb is based on a similar idea – that individuals have excess capacity that they

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