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"Disruptive change within government organizations often requires more than changes in technology and norms matched with market forces or political power. You also have to get lucky." (Ethan Zuckerman, Mistrust: Why Losing Faith In Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them)
I couldn't link the emphasized phrase to the rest of the sentence, can you help me?
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"matched with" means something like "combined with". It is talking about matching, or combining, "changes in technology and norms" with "market forces" or "political power".
- "matched with" means something like "combined with".
- It is talking about matching, or combining, "changes in technology and norms" with "market forces" or "political power".
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"matched with" means something like "combined with". It is talking about matching, or combining, "changes in technology and norms" with "market forces" or "political power".
0Mr. Zuckerman did not express himself clearly, at least for a layman like me. I can't even guess how anything can be matched with market forces or political power, if that is indeed what he says. Just going by the grammar (since the sense eludes me), it is not clear what goes with what. Does disruptive change require more than two things, those two things being "changes in technology" and "nor
0Quotes taken out of context are sometimes too cryptic to understand.
To understand it, you have to read the book, or a summary of it.
Here is an interview with the author: https://www.wamc.org/post/ethan-zuckerman-discusses-new-book-mistrust
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