Thanks for the article, it was an interesting read.
Genuinely interested, what do you think he meant? What do you feel the phrase means today? I read it as software will transform and replace many industries and physical things but will go back and find that essay again now - perhaps it's the bit about software permeating the physical world you object to? It was a really interesting phrase that I think resonated with a lot of people, so perhaps I read into it lots that wasn’t there.
Re consultants, I was referring to this bit:
There’s an old joke that consultants are like seagulls - they fly in, make lots of noise, mess everything up and then fly out. That’s pretty much what tech has done to media industries...
It seemed to me your thesis was that software is done transforming these industries and the only interesting problems are industry specific and not related to software? I think there is still a lot of change left to go.
Genuinely interested, what do you think he meant? What do you feel the phrase means today? I read it as software will transform and replace many industries and physical things but will go back and find that essay again now - perhaps it's the bit about software permeating the physical world you object to? It was a really interesting phrase that I think resonated with a lot of people, so perhaps I read into it lots that wasn’t there.
Re consultants, I was referring to this bit:
There’s an old joke that consultants are like seagulls - they fly in, make lots of noise, mess everything up and then fly out. That’s pretty much what tech has done to media industries...
It seemed to me your thesis was that software is done transforming these industries and the only interesting problems are industry specific and not related to software? I think there is still a lot of change left to go.