Why Software Is Eating The World

An anonymous reader writes "Web browser pioneer Marc Andreessen writes in the Wall Street Journal that software is 'eating the world.' He argues that software's importance to the economy is being underestimated, and will become much more evident in the near future. Quoting: 'But too much of the debate is still around financial valuation, as opposed to the underlying intrinsic value of the best of Silicon Valley's new companies. My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy. 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 Silicon Valley-style entrepreneurial technology companies that are invading and overturning established industry structures. Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not.'"

Why Software Is Eating the World

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CHART OF THE DAY: Netflix Is Eating Up More Of North America's Bandwidth Than Any Other Company

Netflix's streaming service is so popular that it's now consuming 30% of peak downstream internet bandwidth in North America, according to data from Sandvine, a broadband equipment company, via TechCrunch.

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CHART OF THE DAY: Netflix Is Eating Up More Of North America's Bandwidth Than Any Other Company

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Eating Well in Portland, Maine

Contributing editor Margaret Loftus takes us on a culinary tour of Portland, Maine.

I've been known to plan my day around where I might eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner when visiting the venerable food capitals of New York and Paris, but Portland, Maine? You bet.

The city's rise to culinary stardom has been chronicled in the food press, from the New York Times to Bon Appetit, who named it the "foodiest small town in America" last year. Lured from New York and other pricey cities by the relative cheap rents of the Old Port (the city's revitalized waterfront), a small army of top-notch chefs have set up shop here. Combined with an already intense locavore scene--if it grows here, there's a Mainer raising it--and a thriving food artisan community, from whoopie pie bakers to mead brewers, and you have all the makings of a gastronome utopia.

My last visit, in late October, coincided with the city's third annual Harvest on the Harbor, three days of cooking demonstrations, tastings, and exhibits that celebrate Maine's bounty and enormous pool of culinary talent (pictured, above). The high point of Harvest is undoubtedly the Lobster Chef of the Year competition (right), a sort of live lobster Iron Chef where the entire audience gets to taste and judge dishes presented by three finalists. This year's contest turned out to be a real nail-bitter--all three entries were knock-outs--but it was a young upstart, Chef Kelly Patrick Farrin from Azure Café in Freeport, who took the title with his herb grilled Maine lobster on arugula with chive ricotta gnocchi and corn milk.




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The Radar: Street-Food Eating Tips, Traveling While Fat, Ten Great D.C. Restaurants

• While traveling, I strive to stick to the wise (and diarrhea-free) traveler's adage: "If you can't cook it or peel it, forget it!" and order my drinks without ice. Maybe there's a little more leeway than that; check out Laurel Miller's five tips to successfully eating street food here.

• Getting ready to travel this holiday season? Dreading having to sit next to an "oversized" passenger on a long-haul flight to Grandma's? Rob Goldstone--5'7" and 285 pounds--shows us the other side of the coin in "The Tricks and Trials of Traveling While Fat." He explains how he's adapted his traveling techniques (buying two seats, beseeching flight attendants for a seat-belt extender at the start of flights) and details some of the surprises he's encountered while traveling the world while fat: being told not to ride Vietnam's rickshaws, struggling to pass through a bus's turnstile en route to a Rio beach, and being playfully poked in the belly by curious kids in China who thought he resembled the Buddha.

• For those coming to D.C. for this Saturday's Jon Stewart Rally on the National Mall, you'll be sure to get hungry from all of your sanity restoring. Check out this list of ten great D.C. restaurants and put our D.C. City Guide to good use.

Photo of National Mall by Photo Phiend on Creative Commons.


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