A panel at CES was discussing disruptive technologies, predicting what each panelist thought would be the most disruptive tech over the next five years.

The panelists tossed around ideas they thought would be disruptive over this period — robotics, self driving cars, sensors, wearables, home automation and a few others. Creative Strategies Partner and Tech.pinions co-founder Ben Bajarin was on the panel and was asked at the end what he thought would be the most disruptive technology he saw on the horizon. He stated it would be the fact that more people will come online for the first time over the next five years than have in the past 30 years. The global implications of adding another two billion Internet users could be quite disruptive.

Hard to disagree with this opinion. Think about the walls governments build to keep news of the outside world from reaching the masses and what happens when technology emerges to tear down those walls. Think Gutenberg press, Arab Spring, Twitter and the Iranian Green Movement, fax machines and the breakup of the Soviet Union.

Definitely an interesting read.