Why APIs are eating the world

If we're to build a software-powered world, what should we be thinking about? It's time to rethink our building blocks.

published by Simon Bisson at ZDNet

Marc Andreessen famously said that software was eating the world. And he's right: as we take advantage of the compute power of the cloud and the distributed sensor network that's the Internet of Things, we're going to see a world that's fundamentally different from the one in which we currently live. It's hard to imagine just what adding a programmable layer to the world will mean, as we make dumb things smart.

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