By August 2021, many more industries will be disrupted by software, mostly by new Silicon Valley companies.
Accurate ●●●●●
“Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not.”
- Said on
- 20 August 2011 · Essay "Why Software Is Eating the World", Wall Street Journal, reposted on a16z.com
- Source
- Why Software Is Eating the World · Andreessen Horowitz
- Should come true
- Aug 2021
- How sure they sounded
- I expect
- Categories
- TechnologyEconomy
- Importance
- 4 of 5 · Software-driven disruption across industries reshaped the global economy.
Outcome
Accurate Happened 31 August 2021.
Between 2011 and 2021 software-based newcomers, mostly Silicon Valley startups (Uber, Airbnb, Netflix streaming, Stripe, Tesla, etc.), disrupted taxis, hotels, media, payments and autos; by 2021 three of the Fortune 10 were technology companies versus none in 2011. Broad retrospectives judge the forecast borne out.
- https://www.automate.org/editorials/10-years-on-software-is-still-hungry
- https://inquisitiveminds.bristows.com/post/102hjbq/its-ten-years-later-and-software-really-did-eat-the-world
History
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