The software is now king. It is changing the shape of our cities, how we communicate and travel, drives economic growth and improve the way government works and delivers results.
By Mike Gregoire
The other day I ran into two separate articles on the software industry. One said that the world market for technologies related to the Internet of Things is expected to more than triple by 2020, with 7.1 trillion. The other was a report on personal data of 15 million accounts for a major telecommunications company that had recently been stolen by hackers.
Following the scandal of the Volkswagen diesel emissions, which are They used deactivation devices and software to perpetuate a fraud, some focus on the negative aspects associated with the software. Now the results of false emissions have joined the online harassment and theft of electronic identities in the growing list of digital pests that corrode modern society. However, that is only a small part of the story. The most important story is the remarkable degree to which the software has become the center of our lives, and an important part of the global economy.
In the economy of today applications, software running everything from giant companies to your smartphone.
- has turned elmundo travel.
- The way we do banking has been deuna full review Decomo the canalesdigitales hancomenzado adominar the market.
- The windows and travel agencies brick and cement are becoming a thing of the past-just as dial telephones wheel drives and floppy disks.
- Most aviónen nosotrosahoracompra tickets online with decrédito hacepagos líneay cards, increasingly, inclusopedimos comidaen line.
- Allows small businesses escalarrápidamente wings.
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- Enables automation.
- Reduce human error.
- Generadatos serextraídospara objetivosque can drive new innovation and improve functionality.
- You are opening it . door to entirely new business models
Companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, SAP, Uber, Oracle, Airbnb, Amazon, IBM, Salesforce, Twitter, Yahoo !, eBay and CA – to name a few-not could have been created without the software. . These 14 companies alone employ more than one million people, and your income is more than the total GDP of Austria
The impact of software in automotive technology provides a revealing case in point: the new electronics in your car not only serve to give good directions; also make your car run better. There is a reason why your car does not contain a carburetor nothing-a-mechanical device. A fuel injection system controlled by software can simply do better work -ajustando air fuel mixtures with high precision to suit the car speed, engine load, atmospheric conditions and preferences Operator. This can be easily adjusted to optimize the operation of an engine fuel efficiency, energy and of course emissions.
This high level of accuracy and flexibility is what made it possible for a few Volkswagen wrong people play with the system. But it is also what makes so many new technologies more profitable, efficient and frankly more powerful than their mechanical and analog predecessors.
In the context of any imaginable process, the software enables delicate and varied responses to a complex range of inputs, in a way that mechanical tinsmiths old could never have dreamed. At this time, many of the brightest minds from around the world are busily applying the infinite adaptability of the logic circuits for every problem under the sun. Want to do a better job predicting the rains? Hundreds of people are writing code for it, even as you read this sentence. Are you interested in designing better tennis basketball? CAD programs have been created for that purpose only. Looking find tennis lost your cat? There is a program for that too.
The secret of Thomas Alva Edison and Alexander Graham Bell today is much more likely to be found in the hackathon in a workshop mechanic. This should not be interpreted that mechanical engineering is an art that is dying. What it means is that engineers are already accustomed to using software to create their designs and design structures and mechanisms that ultimately will be operated by software. Over a hundred years ago, the electro-mechanical control systems began to take the importance of purely mechanical systems. Now, digital control systems are the norm. Earlier, in a large building it was necessary to contain all switches in a typical telephone exchange; Today, a modest box or two will do the trick.
The software is now king. It is changing the shape of our cities, the way we communicate, how we travel. This boosts economic growth and improves the way government works and delivers results as better medical care. It can be found everywhere, in large quantities. For equipment control systems of obviously complex as the fighter jet F-22 Raptor, were written piece 8 million lines of code. The Chevrolet Volt, which is a very nice car, but it seems to be a less complex notch and about 411 million dollars cheaper than the F-22, uses 10 million lines of code. While history has shown that it is possible to build two fighter jets and electric cars without using any code at all, it is quite clear that none of these amazing vehicles could achieve half of what he does without the benefit of an innovative software .
Today, the software is used for a number of innovations, from learning to read to children at school, through which farmers decide which crops to plant, to entrepreneurs looking for investors and employees, and parents seeking healthcare for their children, to name a few other areas.
Every time a new technology emerges, there are those who try to adapt to destructive or fraudulent purposes, but should not Gutenberg be blamed for all mail dubious junk you receive, or the Wright brothers should take the blame of confusing rules of baggage on discount airlines.
Of course we all have good reasons to be They deceived by the revelations that emerged from Volkswagen, triggered by the misjudgment of a small group of employees of VW. However, that does not change the fact that the software will continue making the world a better place.
Mike Gregoire is CEO of CA Technologies.
The opinions expressed are those of the authors and are completely independent of the position and the editorial line of Mexico Forbes .
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