This book is about a very good news story, not perfect by any means, but progress nonetheless as a new day dawns on the development horizon. For the past seventy years, unindustrialized Global South countries have pursued the quest for development, a concept US President Harry Truman envisioned in 1949, and that American-inspired post-war institutions were to make a reality. Unfortunately, often with the best of intentions, developers could not deliver on this promise and most countries that were impoverished and unindustrialized when President Truman delivered his call remain poor and unindustrialized. Yet a confluence of various phenomena in the modern era may mean this hope will finally be realized. This volume places this opportunity upon rapidly advancing technology deployed by rising Global South middle income nations, innovative philanthropists, indigenous entrepreneurs, and perhaps even a re-imagined traditional development edifice. To wit, like most things in the modern world, development is ripe for disruption.