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Aug 7 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Software and the web have eaten the world.

Their lunch may have reached dessert...

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"Information technology has changed the world. It started changing business a long time ago, but now even pop culture is downstream of tech.
We got memes, we got selfies, we got Soundcloud rappers, we got… The Kardashians. “IRL” has been secondary to “online” for a long time and that became official with the pandemic."
It all happened from the rise of 'the Cloud' and the iPhone's 'user friendly' mobile internet revolution. But...
"A lot of ‘eating’ has been done by software, but now only the hard limits and high-hanging fruit are remaining, things are slowing down, tech isn’t the force for change it used to be."...
"The internet and the iPhone were decades in the making and we are now rounding out the project with the plethora of SaaS companies and apps that are still being built today."
"Are any of them revolutionary? No.

Are they valuable in their own right? Yes.

Is working in tech a noble pursuit? Yes."
"When something else ‘revolutionary’ comes along it will be a deeptech, like biotech or climatetech, that we’re not au fait with today."
Gold nuggets here from exited tech entrepreneur and #deeptech " convert" @aobtweetz ❤️

Full article: https://webtwoboomer. com/software-is-no-longer-eating-the-world-109785eb9d4f

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