The 10 Most Disruptive Technology Combinations

If there's one thing the digital revolution has taught us, it's that we shouldn't get too attached to anything. Technology has a way of seizing long-held ideas and entrenched industries and turning them upside-down.

10. DVRs + Entertainment on Demand

Remember programming your VCR to record TV shows? Of course you don't, because nobody did it--the task was too difficult and time-consuming.

9. YouTube + Cheap Digital Cameras and Camcorders

One word: macaca.

8. Open Source + Web Tools

iTunes Store; click to view full-size image

7. MP3 + Napster

Napster peer-to-peer sharing; click to view full-size image

Rio PMP300; click to view full-size image

6. Blogs + Google Ads

Technorati blog statistics; click to view full-size image

5. Cheap Storage + Portable Memory

When IBM invented the RAMAC hard drive in 1956, it stored 5 megabytes of data and cost $50,000. We've come a long way, baby.

4. Cloud Computing + Always-On Devices

3. Broadband + Wireless Networks

MPEG-1 Layer 3 codec, better known as MP3

2. The Web + The Graphical Browser

Mosaic Web browser; click to view full-size image

1. Cell Phones + Wireless Internet Access

n a word, duh.