Krzysztok has posted the best response the Eric's essay that I've read so far. In it, he breaks down the various future's and comes out much more positive than Eric about what could happen down the road.
As for me, my future will so bright that I'll need sunglasses. I'm delighted to live in an era when all it takes to sell software I might (or might not) write is to spend few bucks on a web site and register with one of many e-commerce providers. I'm delighted that the availability of the Internet opened so many new opportunities that we only began to scratch the surface of what's possible. I'm delighted that open-source provided me with a set of free tools to write software and lots of code to learn from (and in some cases to take and use in my own software). I'm delighted that I live in times when new ideas/software/services/companies are created daily, things like web, IM, eBay, p2p, file sharing, BitTorrent, blogs, MT and blogger, google, Yahoo, Amazon.com, Watson, Napster, iTunes, Chandler, Palm,Pocket PC,Hiptop,perl,Python... the list goes on and on. I'm delighted that I have a shot on Cold Stone.The only thing standing between me and the mythical innovative software and gobs of money is my ability to have great ideas and to work hard to bring them to life.
Now, excuse me, I have some software to write...
I think I'm going to keep that last sentence posted somewhere in my office or perhaps I'll make it one of my .sigs.
Posted by Josh at June 23, 2003 01:00 PM | TrackBack