questionable unresolved disruptive technologies some of the examples of unresolved technologies promoted as disruptive cannot honestly be considered unresolved the most glaring of these is e commerce vs physical shops it is absolutely clear that both e commerce and physical shops are completely entrenched in their own respective niches and while there is a lot of competition between them in some areas the idea that either one could entirely supplant and eliminate the other in the forseeable future is lunacy similar arguments apply to free open source vs proprietary software and internet video on demand and iptv vs advertising supported broadcast and cable television the examples of music downloads and file sharing vs compact discs ebooks vs paper books and voip and voip over vs traditional telephone and mobile phone service are much better examples of unresolved potentially disruptive technologies forseeable future in this case refers to the current world we live in free from instantaneous teleportation william gibson style simstim and other similarly sci fi developements