![]() The SaaS and ad-driven vendors get most of the attention. The title is a half-truth: commercial software is certainly in the decline while also being a huge, profitable business. ![]() If we can 3D print/carve materials we can buy in bulk in a cheap fashion from freely-available software/data, we are likely looking at a fundamentally different economy than the one we are in today. The net result is that it's cheap to build and procure yourself practically almost anything, with the surface of things you can't build/procure yourself increasingly diminishing given the network effect of large swaths of the human race rushing to the Internet to build ever increasingly sophisticated modular components with each trying to outflank each other with a lower price/barrier-to-entry. Moving forward, assume that middle-men are gone, unless required by legislation or differences in sovereignty (i.e. This affects the software ecosystem that existed right before the Internet but impacts everything else as well: taxis, hotels, etc. the Internet) has just made it such that hundreds of years of cleverly and carefully assembled middle-middlemen that were required to keep the economy going are no longer required. The rise of a freely-accessible network connecting all humans (i.e.
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