Scenarios about 'technological disruption'

Technological disruption refers to the process by which innovations fundamentally alter existing markets, industries, or social patterns by displacing established technologies and business models. These transformative changes often create new value networks while rendering previous skills, products, or services obsolete, as seen in historical examples like the printing press revolutionizing information dissemination or the automobile replacing horse-drawn transportation. In alternate history scenarios, examining different timelines of technological disruption allows exploration of how societies might have developed had certain innovations emerged earlier, later, or not at all.