From Prologue: T here are books born as questions, and others as warnings. This one, however, emerges as a necessary continuity—the third piece of an intellectual project that seeks to think through the twenty first century from the living matter of history. Disruptive Technologies: Past, Present, and Future belongs to the series Historical Materialism in the Twenty First Century, preceded by The Ontology of Historical Materialism in the Twenty First Century and The Anti Machiavellian, two works that opened distinct paths toward a shared concern: understanding how the world transforms and what place the human occupies within that transformation. If the first volume explored the ontological foundations of history—the deep weave where matter, consciousness, and production intertwine—and the second examined the ethics of power in times of political cynicism, this third book ventures into a territory where history quickens its pulse: that of technology as a disruptive force, as an engine that reconfigures not only the economy but also sensitivity, labour, identity, and collective imagination. Here, technology does not appear as a neutral artifact or a mere technical advance, but as a historical actor—one that bursts in, displaces, and reorganizes. Each innovation—from artificial intelligence to biotechnology, from automation to global data networks—alters the material conditions of existence and, with them, the ways we think, feel, and relate. In these pages, the reader will find a journey that moves from past to future, yet always with feet firmly planted in the present—a present where disruption is no longer the exception but the rule. This book invites us to pause amid that velocity, to look lucidly at what moves beneath the surface of progress. It reminds us that every technology, however brilliant it may seem, carries an ethical question, a political tension, and a possibility of emancipation or domination. Above all, it urges us to understand that the future is not written by machines, but by the social relations that create, use, and contest them. In that spirit, Disruptive Technologies continues the quest begun in the previous volumes: to think the twenty-first century without abandoning critique, without surrendering to fatalism, and without losing sight of the fact that history—even in the age of algorithms—remains a profoundly human territory.