Rudina Seseri is founder and managing partner at Glasswing Ventures, an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Harvard Business School and an Executive-In-Residence for Harvard University's Innovation-Lab. First the computer, then the web and eventually social networks and smartphones all had the power to revolutionize how people live and how businesses operate. They destroyed companies that weren't able to adapt, while creating new winners in growing markets. While the exact timing and form of such waves of disruption are hard to predict, the pattern they follow is easy to recognize. Take the web/digital disruption, for example: There was a technological breakthrough (e.g.

Powerful new technologies have a way of making the old ones irrelevant. Everyone in tech is well aware of this fact. This was the case with the emergence of the web in the 90s and social-mobile in the 2000s. The current wave is driven by Artificial Intelligence (AI) as the technology that will transform industries as we know them and create new ones we have yet to imagine. The widespread adoption of smartphones and the exponential growth of devices with sensors and internet connectivity create a new paradigm, which we at Glasswing Ventures call Pervasive Connectivity.