Kuala Lampur, May 9 -- The annals of corporate history are littered with the bones of giants.

We speak of them in reverent, almost mythological terms: Kodak, the monarch of memory, whose film captured the 20th century. BlackBerry, the indispensable oracle, whose device first put the world in our pocket.

To discuss their downfall is to engage in a familiar autopsy: they were disrupted. They were too slow. They were arrogant.

But that narrative, while comforting in its simplicity, is dangerously incomplete. It implies that if we just run fast enough, we will be safe.

The truth, as revealed by the ghosts of these titans, is far more unsettling. The tragedy of Kodak and BlackBerry is not that they failed to see the future, but that they i...