ZD 26.06: The End of Software as We Know It?

The market thinks SaaS is dead and tidbits for the curious.

If you came here looking for some notes about OpenClaw: fear not, that is coming.

In fact, there is a bit too much to work with on the subject. I was wondering if you could help me focus. See the poll below, if you have more input let me know in the comments.

And now for our regularly scheduled programming.

♻️ The Disposable Software Era (Joe Reis)
We are moving into an era where some software is disposable and tinkerers are enabled.

🔥 Software: Armageddon or Opportunity? (Oguz Erkan)
Software has been eating the world for the last decade and a half. Is it it’s turn to be eaten?

🤖 The Dawn of the Posthuman Age (Noah Smith)
What to make of a high technology, low fertility future.

🏎️ How F1 Conquered American Culture (Business of Speed)
How did F1 go from peripheral to important enough for Cadillac to start a team and take out a Superbowl ad to tell the world about it?

😎 Immersive Sports Revolution (Map the World by Bilawal Sidhu)
Volumetric video, immersive entertainment venues and next generation headsets are conspiring to revolutionize the way you can consume sports.

👮 Fraud Investigations Follow Predictable Patterns (Bits About Money)
Fraud has become unfortunately politicized. In fact, it behaves like many other professions with identifiable supply chains and apprenticeship systems.

📈 Claude Coding a Portfolio Tracker (Mispriced Assets)
You could pay a lot for software you can just vibe code now.

🥈 Silver Supply Crisis (The Honest Sorcerer)
Part of the problem with Silver is we are not mining enough to meet demand, creating conditions for wild price swings.

🏭 Building the Wrong Factories for War (Shear Force)
War needs mass production of shells, not highly differentiated production of consumer goods. America specializes in the latter.

🪦 Beware Q Day (Why is this interesting?)
Q day is the day quantum computing renders current encryption ineffective. Here is how nations are preparing for that eventuality.

🏫 School is Worse than Social Media (Unpublishable Papers)
The studies about social media being bad for kids failed to adjust for schooling.

🏅 Amazing Olympics Coverage (Sports! by Rodger Sherman)
Rodger Sherman does brilliant coverage of esoteric sports. His Winter Olympic coverage shines.

The Look

China installs more robots than the rest of the world put together.

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