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Summary.
In 2011, Marc Andreesen, the eponymous founding partner of venture capital firm Andreesen Horowitz, wrote an editorial famously proclaiming that “software is eating the world.” His argument: four decades after the invention of the microprocessor and two decades since the creation of the internet, the transformational software technologies that had the potential to reshape the industrial landscape were finally ready for full-scale deployment. Boy, history has proved him right.