I don't see software as a commodity happening during my life / career. It very well may happen, but I think I'll be dead and buried for a long time beforehand.

Or perhaps the application of fire/ software will grow along the lines of basic fire, fire applied to product, and then fire as a product. I'm thinking of the evolution of fire from "Keep me warm, cook my food" to the application of Napalm... Perhaps we'll get to the point where my foes can be done in by software.

Crazy little "Web bots" running around the Net, duking it out with some foreign nemesis, then we'll need a large government body to control, regulate, and secure these creations. Perhaps something like a National Software Agency... We'll all be happy the NSA is there to protect us....

:w00t: maybe there's something in those pills I'm taking.....