Speaking of the horse, the personal transportation industry is an industry currently in the crosshairs of a disruptive moment. : Around 5,000 years ago (2.5 times as far back as Rome), humanity first domesticated the horse. This new invention impacted economics, travel, and military to such a degree that population trends across three continents forever changed. The domestication of the horse was a disruptive technology that completely replaced the earlier way of doing things.