Word reached the Department of Land Transport last week that disruptive tech- nology is the single coolest and awesom est fad around, so those cool shufflers of extreme paper immediately disrupted the latest and coolest item they could find, and thought it was pretty cool Hours later, Bangkok had lost an actual cool start-up, a world's first, in fact. The city lost two at a single stroke, competi- tors who unfortunately not only triggered the automatic Luddite alarm, but messed with the military regime's carefully laid plan for a regimented, registered and, especially, politically intimidated motor- cycle taxi business.