I sorta disagree here - it's neigh impossible to argue but I definitely feel like it didn't take a visionary in 2005 to predict that the web would be the next t

I sorta disagree here - it's neigh impossible to argue but I definitely feel like it didn't take a visionary in 2005 to predict that the web would be the next transport/distribution layer for software. My argument: I was in HS from 2001-2005 and when I started it was the end of the Win98/IE era with highspeed internet being one of those things few people had (middle class Iowa). When I got out of HS nearly everyone lower-middle-class and above had a broadband internet connection, online gaming was booming, we were seeing offerings like Gmail, Google Docs happened, online courses were starting to be a thing, blah blah... If you were an educator of the era trying to prepare people for a real-world career in CS you ABSOLUTELY shoulda had your fingers on that pulse noticing that the internet use was growing exponentially for everything from business, to socialization, to entertainment. If anything, they shouldn't have been discriminatory against a student's choice to specialize in it saying "software on the internet isn't a thing" when it clearly already $#@%ing was with an obvious growth trajectory. TLDR: "Software users" - totally agree don't expect them to have seen the wave coming in 2005. Collegiate computer science educator claiming to prepare students for real-world careers should have seen it coming from a mile away if they weren't tone-deaf to the industry (they were).