A lot of speculating, nothing of value. Software is a tool to get things done. The only way software eats software, is by having intelligent people wanting be

A lot of speculating, nothing of value. Software is a tool to get things done. The only way software eats software, is by having intelligent people wanting better tools and abstractions to get shit done. Building better tools and abstractions is hard work. For people to be motivated to do hard work, there need to be goals worth sacrificing for and a support system in place, to help and motivate the hard workers to keep going. Society has to want change and treat those on the front lines as champions for their cause. That's how real progress gets made, and not only in software, but in all areas of life. Americans seem to have forgotten or maybe never knew, that this is how things work. This tendency to dumb everything down to never offending anyone and not letting anyone even have a chance to make a wrong move, has made everyone into a bit of a complacent dumb-ass, writing blog posts like these that say absolutely nothing. If you want a bit of a shocking example of how deep this goes - you can't customize, group, rank, save, or do anything on the number one photo-sharing app in the world. You can only mindlessly scroll, like, comment and share. I mean, we've reduced an entire creative medium to a single algorithm of behaviour, optimized for maximum time spent zombie-scrolling. When people wake up to what zombified lives they've been living and that it hasn't been an accident but happened by design - it will not be software eating software, it will be software users eating software companies and then some for what they've done to humanity in the name of quarterly profits.