Excerpt From Summary of Clayton M. Christensen's The Innovators Dilemma
#1
The author's friend suggested that those who study genetics avoid studying humans. Because new generations come along only every thirty years or so, it takes a long time to understand the cause and effect of any changes. Instead, researchers study fruit flies, because they are conceived, born, mature, and die all within a single day.
#2
A disk drive is a computer component that reads and writes information on rotating disks. It consists of a read/write head mounted at the end of an arm that swings over the surface of a rotating disk.