“[Technology] Brigands have used these technologies to topple the recorded music industry, sink the porn biz, kill the ticket scalper who used to loiter around the stadium, upend the map trade, rattle the publishing industry, move prostitutes off the street, demolish the print classifieds, unbundle the newspaper, unbundle the CD, and jailbreak your iPhone, and they’re coming to take over higher education, drive the DVD into extinction, and throttle your landline telephone.”
He calls them brigands for their assault on the established order of things.