Jon Evans

As hardware doubles its density every 18-24 months, courtesy of Moore's Law, and as software eats the world, technology will replace a broad swathe of jobs outright - from burger-flippers to diagnosticians - and atomize many others from full-time positions into gigs performed by many fungible workers. Tech, in short, will eat jobs.

Canadian Novelist

Arlie Russell Hochschild

If in previous decades large historic events drew people together and oriented them toward collective action, the recent double trend toward greater choice but less security leads the young to see their lives in more individual terms. Big events collectivize. Little events atomize.

American Educator

Often used metaphorically to describe thorough division into smaller components.

Metaphorical Use

Conveys an intense process of breaking down, implying fine division.

Intensity of Action

Used to discuss social phenomena where unity is fragmented into isolation.

Social Context

Usually suggests negative consequences in social contexts.

Negative Connotations

Use in scientific contexts, refers to very specific process of creating mist.

Technical Specificity

Describes the physical transformation from liquid to mist, not solid to pieces.

Physical Transformation

 Why? To atomize music culture so that ALL past, present and future genres

Atomize