Andreessen (founder of Netscape and current venture capitalist) titles his insights, "Why Software Is Eating the World." The excerpts below don't begin to do justice to the overview Andreessen offers. He points out how and why, in his way of putting it, software is indeed "eating the world."
[...] More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services—from movies to agriculture to national defense. . . Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not . . .
Six decades into the computer revolution, four decades since the invention of the microprocessor, and two decades into the rise of the modern Internet, all of the technology required to transform industries through software finally works and can be widely delivered at global scale.
Over two billion people now use the broadband Internet, up from perhaps 50 million a decade ago, when I was at Netscape, the company I co-founded. In the next 10 years, I expect at least five billion people worldwide to own smartphones, giving every individual with such a phone instant access to the full power of the Internet, every moment of every day... [more...]