Is Software Good, Bad, or Ugly? Depends on Where You Sit

摘要

Even if you have played no role in the design, development, or support of the applications that manage your personal and professional lives, you know that software rules the world. Every aspect of your life is enabled by a suite of fixed or mobile software applications that more often than not live in the cloud. It's safe to say that if you were separated or divorced from your apps, you would be unable to function. We can also define the rule of software by the integration of our personal and professional activities, which have strongly converged over the past decade in ways that often make it impossible to cleanly distinguish personal versus professional agendas.