Hacker Noon July 1, 2022
In 2011, Marc Andreessen said something that was already eerily obvious to most people in the know, but had yet to be elucidated so clearly. He said, “software is eating the world.” At the time, Facebook, Google, and Amazon — the quintessential software companies, were already showing signs that they could dominate their respective markets. But Marc wasn’t just referring to software companies. He was referring to a lot more.
What Andreessen meant by his statement was that most businesses would soon come to depend on software to perform their most basic functions. He meant that taxi-hailing companies would soon come to rely on apps. Supermarkets would come to rely on apps. Even newspapers would come to rely on apps....