I don't think the change the author writes about will come. He thinks the barriers to development will be eased through better and easier to use tools, and he's

I don't think the change the author writes about will come. He thinks the barriers to development will be eased through better and easier to use tools, and he's right about that. But even today, we have Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and Xcode, but to produce anything REALLY good, you have to go deeper than what you see, and it will always be like that. The reason is because entire bar for quality shifts up when everybody gets better tools; the game changes and evolves. For example, today it isn't impressive enough to be static, we want the power to build databases and interactivity. And when we achieve that, we'll want to link them up to APIs and libraries without having know how. And even with these magical tools, a hacker could still outproduce a non-technical by X factor, because they have access to tools AND depth of knowledge as well. That said, I think the distinction between technical and business founder is paid too much attention. In the context of entrepreneurship, programming is a skill, a means to an end. That end is a product/business that makes money.