Will Programmers Rule?
Two attributes of software creation allow a few talented programmers to corner the market and take all the associated profits: first, software with a slight edge tends to get a significantly greater share of the available market; and, second, the available market is global. So, will anything prevent inequality from widening?
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NEW DELHI – Marc Andreessen made his first fortune writing the code that became Netscape Navigator, the Internet browser. He is now a venture capitalist who evangelizes about the growing importance of software in business today. Indeed, he proclaims that software is taking over the world – that it will be the primary source of added value – and offers the following prediction: the global economy will one day be divided between people who tell computers what to do and people who are told by computers what to do.