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Coventry City's owner: 'Digital disruption is bigger than the industrial revolution' I recently caught up with controversial Canadian media entrepreneur Leonard Brody to discuss his ideas on why digital disruption requires a radical re-write of the planet. "The world has not caught up with the change over the last five years that is radically transforming every part of our existence" Could Zuckerberg, Berners-Lee and Page go down in history with the likes of Ford, Edison and Stephenson as people who changed the world for good? According to investor and futurologist Leonard Brody, the Digital Revolution has already usurped the Industrial Revolution in terms of its impact on our individual lives, society and business.

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