Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation: How Silicon Valley Will Make Oil, Nuclear, Natural Gas, Coal, Electric Utilities and Conventional Cars Obsolete by 2030

by Tony Seba

What happened in photography and what is happening in many other industries is what I call “waves of disruption” or “disruptive waves.” These waves used to happen every century or maybe every generation. The computer industry sped up disruption waves so they occur every decade or so (see Figure 1.2).

It took twelve years to reach 50 million laptops, seven years to reach 50 million smartphones, but only two years to reach 50 million tablets.2