Most Disruptive Technologies of 2012

So, on this last day of 2012, what technologies are people saying were the most disruptive?  Christopher Mims put together a list of 5 that seems to be the most reblogged and quoted list around, but there are a few others that are proposed.

The list proposed by Mims includes the following:

1. Controlling computers without touching them.
2. Fusing the virtual and the real;
3. The world’s most cost-effective energy storage;
4. The end of cars as we know them;
5. 5 billion people with internet access.

A good discussion of each of these can be found here.  If you want to know more about Christopher Mims you can find a short bio here.


The MIT Technology Review has put together a different take on disruption by publishing a list of 50 Disruptive Companies.  They define a disruptive company as "a business whose innovations force other businesses to alter their strategic course."  Their choice of companies is based on the following: "As a group, the companies on this list represent our best judgment of the commercial innovations most likely to change lives around the world."

Do you agree with these reports?  What technologies do you think should have been included as disruptive for 2012?  What companies should be included in the MIT Technology Review list that are not there?