A Snapshot of Today

The future is no longer a synonym for “progress

—Bruce Sterling

I had six years of increasing frustration. Why? Because the software company that I worked for, and of which I was an executive, was a total failure at the in-house development of new (as opposed to n+1) products. As Chief Scientist, I wasn’t even directly responsible for product design. But that was little consolation. I still felt that we should be able to create new products.

Early in 2002, however, something significant happened. It suddenly occurred to me that our company was not alone in this situation. Rather, as far as I could make out, virtually every other software company was pretty much in the same boat. After establishing their initial product, ...

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