3 ms·
Software is eating the company
- smt88 12y agoThis is going to get pedantic, but I'm so tired of seeing the verb "eating" applied to software. It makes no sense. When something is eaten, it's digested into something unrecognizable and then discarded. That's a terrible analogy for what software is doing to the world and, in this case, to companies. For unlucky people/companies/industries, software is simply replacing it. You could perhaps more accurately say that software is outmoding those things. "Eating their lunch" maybe, but not eating them. For lucky people/companies/industries, software is a lubricating or accelerating factor. It's not eating them, either.