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Over the next 10 years, the battles between incumbents and software-powered insurgents will be epic.

Over the next 10 years, the battles between incumbents and software-powered insurgents will be epic. More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services—from movies to agriculture to national defense. Many of the winners are technology companies that are invading and overturning established industry structures. Over the next 10 years, many more industries will be disrupted by software , with new world-beating companies doing the disruption in more cases than not. With lower start-up costs and a vastly expanded market for online services, the result is a global economy that for the first time will be fully digitally wired. There are many dramatic examples of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business like, Books :  The suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon. Today, the world's largest bookseller, Amazon.com, is a software company—its core capability is its amazing software engine for selling virtually e