2014 is ending, but this wave of technology disruptions is just beginning

[Commentary] Changes in technology are happening at a scale which was unimaginable before and will cause disruption in industry after industry.

Here are five sectors to keep an eye on: 1) Manufacturing, 2) The Reinvention of Finance, 3) Health Care, 4) The Energy Industry, and 5) Communications.

AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint have seen their landline businesses disappear. These were replaced by mobile -- which is now being replaced by data.

[Vivek Wadhwa is a fellow at Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University]