Programming will be obsolete! - Cannibal Software

For years it has been said: Software is eating the world alive. Today, more than particularly, as we can barely imagine our lives without software.

The invasion technology performed over our public and private life was a long history. By the end of the 90s we started having DSL, cable and other weird things like Millicom (a major communications company down here in Latin America).
Then several major league players joined the market: Microsoft offered us an e-mail system totally accessible from the web interface in the shape of Hotmail, Yahoo! offered us online games where we could waste perfectly good hours of sleep playing Backgammon matches against complete unknowns (I still preferred MSN Gaming Zone, zone.com, now it is a silly site contrasted against "modern" games).
And this is how us, the so-called millennials, grew up used to dump certain parts of our lives into Internet, entertainment and communications, to the point that it defines this group. Millennial became a word that defined the relationship we have with technology and communication, it is not a simple age range.

Yet, this guy is overdoing it a bit... Pokemon Go?! FFS! GET A LIFE!!!

This first revolution of interconnected software had its equivalent of the Steam Engine in the globalization of Internet and computers for personal use (giving birth to what we only know as: PC). Economically speaking, they became so cheap that computers that only certain major countries could afford now were easily bought by almost any family.

Do not ever forget to tap your pocket and remember that the little device in there that you use to play Candy Crush has more computational power than the computers used to put the man in the moon, not to mention that is has a WAY BETTER network connection.

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Forwarding into contemporary times we find out that, today, every big enterprise is tech related, a statement I will dare to defend right now.
To begin with: There's two ways to understand this statement.

One

The majority of the big companies are companies that "model themselves out" as tech companies. Just consider any stock market, check the companies with largest values... You'll see what I mean. The largest ones you may find are software related: Apple, Amazon, Google,Microsoft, Facebook.

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The other way of understand what I am meaning is: Money
This is a daring proposal: Banks are technology companies that apply it to finances, health insurances are tech companies dedicated to rip uss off assure us that we get the best treatment whenever it is needed. You can apply that formula to almost every company, with no technology -software- developed for their purposes they would not work!

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Now, we need to look into the future. Since we already had one: Will we be able to predict the next technologic revolution? What is next? If software is eating the world alive. We depend on interconnected software to exist and it too over our lives, what will the next revolution's motto be? What will the software eat once it has finished dining the world? The answer is: SOFTWARE!
Yes, I believe that the second coming of the software revolution will come with cannibalization included. Software will feast on software.

Allow me to deepen this:

The internal combustion engine of this technologic revolution comes by the hand of blockchains, massive mobile Internet and interconnected devices such as domotics, smartphones, the Internet of Things and the smart-whatevers (even toasters!).

Just like high speed Internet and cheap microchips in the 90s enforced the development of desktop software and the first *.com websites, today the new ingredients in the Hardware Universe are leaving a footprint in the software we use today.

By interconnecting everything, software is no longer defined as an added value, but it adds value to other softwares; just as you may see with an opensource STEEM that is free, while the value is added by countless apps.

Apps, apps for everything. Some people lack of memory and rely on apps to remember everything: From the phone app that memorizes every single phone number we need (we we used to know them by heart) to the ones that store our passwords "on the cloud".
Appstores for any device, that contribute with their listings to personalize our phone and computer. That have as sole purpose one thing: Sell us pieces of software. This even goes further in games! Where you used to buy a full game 25 years ago, today you buy a "basic" pack and then you've the option to download mods, expansions and "chapters" for a modest fee.
Appstores: Software that manages software and feed of them. Cannibal Software.

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Where will all this lead to?
Evolution of Interfaces.
We come from a command line interface such as the old DOS (or, GNU, if you prefer), evolving into a Graphic interface that now evolved into voice command ones like Siri, Alexa and Morgana. The human input is not as needed as it used to be.

Clean APIs are needed for this, where the use is so simple, anyone is able to exploit it for their purposes. Clean, tidy APIs allows programmers and users from all around the globe to develop software, that feeds software. Eventually, APIs will become a standard for all apps/programs. Then, all we'll need is an AI that will combine an infinite amount of random functions and test those combinations with OTHER AIs: Discarding the ones that are useless.
Software that runs on software to feed software that distributes software that adds value to the software as people use it; critically tested by extensive AIs that compare the needs with the program's output.
A cannibalistic software cycle, designed to please us.

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There will be a point where being a programmer will be looked at like we as see a chimney-sweeper today.

Remember me in 10-20 years, when this finally happens.