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One of the biggest problems that software developers face is that technology changes rapidly. It is very hard to stay current.

In short, software is eating the world.

My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy.

I am worried about development in the field of information technology, communication, etc. So you cannot say that I have become inactive.

Software tends not to kill people, and so we accept incredibly fast innovation loops because the consequences are tolerable and the results are astonishing.

The process of software development doesn't feel any better than it did a generation ago.

Corporations have been killing the risk-taking and exploration that makes software great. They have tried to rip the soul out of development.

For me, it always comes back to the blogger, the author, the designer, the developer. You build software for that core individual person, and then smart organisations adopt it and dumb organisations die.

What we learned several years ago was that one of our weaknesses would be if we didn't develop enough people with the know-how to run our company, it would come to the point where we would just stop.

I'd like to see an arrested growth of development. You can't stop it, but it's important we do something about the developers having the upper hand.