Disruptive Technologies

Thomas Edison with a light bulb

Disruptive technologies come along once in a while and change the world and how we live in it. They often represent a paradigm shift from how things were to how things will be. Here are a few such innovations:

• Printing Press
• Hydraulics
• Electricity
• Light Bulb
• Generator
• Motor/Engine
• Refrigerator
• Automobile
• Airplane
• Telephone
• Photograph
• Radio
• Film / Motion Picture
• Television
• Computer
• Artificial Intelligence
• Internet
• Search Engine
• Social Network
• Social Media
  

There are so many historical disputes of who invented what that we are left with just a simple list. The question now is “what’s next?”