Joel Spolsky, of Joel on Software fame, has been in the computer industry for a long time. He’s also a smart fellow who knows how to write, and he has just posted an insightful article on where it looks to him like the computer industry is headed. If you’re in charge of your software company’s strategy, or have the ear of someone who is, or are in software development at all, take my advice: read it and think about it. You really can’t afford not to.