🧑💻Noteworthy Bits -- 7/25/22
Start your week with a curated selection of technology insights, analyses, and perspectives. Don’t hog the ball — share with your team!
Software Eats the Office Desk
We can’t wait to see what the office desk looks like 30 years from now! Any guesses?
Understanding the Modern Data Stack via Tanay Jaipura
“One of the key characteristics which make the tools as part of the stack “modern” is that they are all cloud-native.
Compared to legacy stacks, this tends to offer a few benefits:
lower barriers to set up and deploy
easier to scale up as needed
more operationally focused than IT focused”
How Software is Stifling Competition and Slowing Innovation via NY Times
A counterintuitive, but important perspective on the role software plays within industries. James Bessen, executive director of the Technology & Policy Research Initiative at the Boston University School of Law, has a new book challenging a lot of the conventional wisdom with regard to the role of software in innovation in what he calls the “disruption myth”.
“[Technology], he contends, is spreading and being adopted across industries more slowly than in the past, which exacerbates the trends of inequality and market concentration.”
This book is now on our reading list!