Why Software is Eating the World
Our friends at 94 Westbound Consulting (a Chicago-based technology innovation company with whom we partner) referred us to this excellent article which features Marc Andreessen. Andreessen, you'll recall, literally started the commercialization of the web with 1995's Netscape IPO. In the spirit of disclosure: This post is currently being written on FireFox, but Andreessen's contributions and thought are no less important.
More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services—from movies to agriculture to national defense. Many of the winners are Silicon Valley-style entrepreneurial technology companies that are invading and overturning established industry structures. Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software...
Think about the ways that we communicate with patients, families, and stakeholders. How many of these methods rely on software? Further, how many of these methods rely on software which in turn, relies on other software? Finally, where does all of this software reside?
In short, it's the uquitity, low cost, and combinability of software that can ultimately change the way that we engage with healthcare which is a powerful takeway from Andreessen's thesis.
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