Yeah, you have to be careful which conclusions you reach from these trend plots. By the author's arguments, I could argue that maybe people just won't be inter

Yeah, you have to be careful which conclusions you reach from these trend plots. By the author's arguments, I could argue that maybe people just won't be interested in software at all anymore in a few years: https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=software%20as%20a%20service%2C%20open%20source%2C%20API%2C%20software&cmpt=q&tz=Etc%2FGMT%2B4 https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=software%20as%20a%20... A lot of these concepts are just too general to search for. That doesn't mean they're less popular, it just means their conceptual boundaries are too big for a single phrase.