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Re:Marc Andreessen on Why Software is Eating the World by pyre on Saturday August 20, 2011 @03:47AM (#2906111)
If things did lead to decentralization, I would celebrate such a thing. In general, decentralization wouldn't necessarily be the death of the software industry, just of centralized gatekeepers in specific areas. Things like Big Data(tm) (gathering and analysis) would be hard to decentralize.
Re:Marc Andreessen on Why Software is Eating the World by jorangreef on Saturday August 20, 2011 @11:19AM (#2906809)
Big data is exactly the kind of thing to decentralize: see p2p.
Re:Marc Andreessen on Why Software is Eating the World by pyre on Saturday August 20, 2011 @08:00PM (#2908100)
Someone has to gather all of the data into one place and crunch numbers on it to make it useful.