📝 Software is about to eat the world much faster Fifteen years ago, I wrote that software is eating the world - at the time, a controversial claim. The main prediction of the essay has come true. As a simple measure, technology’s share of the market capitalization among the ten largest businesses in the world has gone from 31.5% to 94.4% over that period. Amazingly, this happened even though only 1 in 300 people on earth wrote software, and every line of it had to be written by hand. Software…