Much has been said about businesses – media, retailers, and traditional business management software come to mind – that have faced disruption by hot new technologies that have shaken old business models to the core.

But as Seek.com founder and technology venture capitalist Paul Bassat told The Australian Financial Review and Macquarie Future Forum on technology on Tuesday, very few ­companies will turn out to be complete winners or complete losers from new technology. In fact, there are many sectors which are not only ripe but desperately in need of digital disruption: ones like age care that need help to face demand that could overwhelm them in future.