Industries are in flux. Google’s driverless cars are waiting at the intersection of internal combustion and search engines. Payment companies such as M-Pesa, Stripe and PayPal are testing the locks on banks’ safe deposit boxes. Samsung, Apple and Google’s Android have put BlackBerry and Nokia on hold. If you are the chief executive of a carmaker, financial institution or mobile phone maker and you are not yet worrying about the blurred edges of what was once a clearly demarcated border between sectors, you are lost.
各个行业正处于不断变迁之中。谷歌(Google)的无人驾驶汽车正在内燃引擎与搜索引擎的交叉路口等候。M-Pesa,、Stripe和PayPal等支付公司正在考验银行保险箱的安全锁。三星(Samsung)、苹果(Apple)以及谷歌的Android已经让黑莓(BlackBerry)和诺基亚(Nokia)靠边站了。如果你是一家汽车制造商、一家金融机构或一家手机制造商的首席执行官,而你还没有开始担心行业间曾经分明的界限已变得模糊的话,那么你就太糊涂了。