I'm looking for examples of new software from the past (contemporarily: AI, Blockchain) upon which entire companies (and a new category) were going to be built, but ended up absorbed by real companies in real sectors?<p>We currently have a "Blockchain sector" in tech, with "Blockchain companies" . But that's not a real sector. The Blockchain itself not a platform, it's a tool.( Ditto AI).<p>What will exist will be cloud storage/database companies specializing in using the Blockchain in specific existing categories: Fintech (global remittance), Permanent digital archiving etc. It's like how Telegram isn't a "Mobile Apps" company, it's an information transfer (aka communication) company which competes with SMS, newspapers, physical human going to a place to deliver the message by word of mouth etc.<p>So yeah, what are examples of this happening in the past? "New software" at first births "new software" companies in the "new software" sector, until, eventually, "new software" becomes just a normal tool, not with its own companies in its own sector, but which enables companies in existing sectors.