Nodes are going to dethrone tech giants — from Apple to Google
Decentralized systems are slowly putting power back in the hands of developers and users — and taking it away from Big Tech companies. While highly regarded even at the time of its writing, Marc Andreessen’s 2011 landmark essay, “Why Software Is Eating the World,” has proven even more prophetic than it seemed at the time. At the dawn of a decade when software would prove invaluable to nearly every aspect of modern life, Andreessen argued that every company was now ostensibly a software company, whether the company liked it or not.Tailoring his argument to many of the companies that were....
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