New disruptive technologies are often born in the bellies of the winners of the previous iteration.

But then they grow to then eat the thing that birthed them^[afm].

These kinds of disruptive technologies often emerge from environments that have significant amounts of capital to spend on open-ended R&D.

But the logic of the disruptive innovation invalidates the environment the parent assumes.

Big incumbents would rather new technologies be sustaining, because if not it's too chaotic for them.

The next generation is fertilized in the not-yet-dead corpses of the previous generation.^[afn]