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SOFTWARE Editor: Christof Ebert Vector Consulting Services TECHNOLOGY christof.ebert@ Looking into the Future Christof Ebert No matter what business you’re in, you’re also in the software business. But where are we heading? This 50th installment of Software Technology tries to look into the future. To mitigate bias, I spoke with many software business leaders around the world. They pointed to ve success factors that will advance the software business. They left unaddressed whether software will evolve humankind to Humanity 2.0—or a posthuman society. Read more in this column and let me know your opinion and own stimulus. I look forward to hearing from both readers and prospective column authors about this column and the technologies you want to know more about. —Christof Ebert. SOFTWARE MAKES the world go tor Consulting Services’ annual indus- The companies include ABB, Bosch, round—at ever- increasing speeds. try benchmark performed with differ- GE, Google, Lufthansa, Philips, and From the embedded software in ent companies from various industries Siemens, among others. cars, avionics, and automation to helped provide a sound quantitative the ubiquitous computers in smart baseline.1 All the companies are in The State of the phones and consumer electronics, the software business, either directly Software Business The software business is different from traditional industries.2,3 Indus- try ex