But for 401(k) investors the sources of financial noise can be unexpected or worse, completely unrecognized.

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Despite its high-tech sheen, medicine looks a lot like some of the dinosaur industries that were upended by competition from unexpected sources: autos in the 1970s, for example, or mainframe computers in the 1980s.

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