siliconindia | | August 20188IN MY OPINIONBy Robert Hughes, VP & Head - Index & Adviser Solutions, Nasdaq Global IndexNasdaq Global Index is a comprehensive equity benchmark offering a broad exposure for over 98 percent of investable large, mid, and small-cap securities, encompassing a variety of global sector, benchmark, and tradable indexes for the investing community and licensing opportunities for product sponsors.I n the grand scheme of technological advancement, it wasn't long ago that smartphones were the emerging technology of the day. Within little more than a decade, they've become fundamental to everyday life in much the same way as oth-er defining modern technologies like social media, streamed entertainment content, cloud computing and e-Commerce. This road from disruption to the new normal has been paved over by these overarching popular technologies, and this time frame gets shorter with each new cycle. Now, another crop of disruptive tech-nologies like machine learning, image recognition, bioinformatics, big data, 3D printing, drones and wearable/implantable technologies may remake the world. Yet even if technological disruption is a giv-en, harnessing the pace of change can be difficult. The paradigm around disruptive technology as an economic driver has shifted. As INVESTING IN A DISRUPTIVE WORLD: HOW TECHNOLOGY HAS CHANGED EVERYTHINGRobert Hughes
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