I think we live in a time of disruptive progress. If you see the humane kind since the beginning, the last century is disruptive, 100 year period in 10,000 + years of humans is pretty disruptive. Also, the discoveries that change the science take many years in be applied to a commercial level, for example Watson and Crick discover the DNA in 1953, between 1990-2003 the human genome project was aiming to sequence de entire human genome, and right now are more than 400 research projects in gene therapy. In the next decade you will see many genetic disorders been cure. The basic science is slow in our lifetime but disruptive to humankind