
Tech is Going to Get Much Bigger

After the Manhattan Project and the Apollo program, whose major technological innovations—atomic bombs, nuclear energy, rockets, semiconductors—were largely physical, progress became increasingly confined to the virtual.
Byrne Hobart • Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation
Software has eaten the world, and now it’s a commodity. It’s not about the technology anymore. The era of the engineer has ended; the era of the curator has begun.