The Machine

About a month ago my mom shared an article from the Wall Street Journal with me by Marc Andreessen which he titled Why Software Is Eating The World. Andreessen's made the point that business has changed in a fundamental way so that every major industry has become, at least in part, a member of the software industry. This observation by Andreesen is a natural outgrowth of a fundamental change in society as a whole, the rise of the machine. The reason software is a fundamental part of every major business is because computers have become a fundamental part of day to day life. If you're a person in your twenties or younger then chances are you you make most of your purchases with a credit or debit card, most non-food purchases happen online, you don't own a watch because you use your phone instead, your phone is your alarm clock, most of you news comes from the internet, your more likely to watch "TV" on hulu then an actual TV, etc... Software runs computers and computers have become the new de facto modus operandi.