Software Defined Anything—From Software-Defined Hardware to Software Defined Anything

Marc Andreessen, a well-known engineer, investor and columnist based in Silicon Valley, is the inventor of the first graphical web browser, Mosaic, co-founder of Netscape and member of the board of directors at Facebook, eBay and Hewlett-Packard. In 2011, an article Andreessen authored for The Wall Street Journal, Why Software Is Eating the World, received considerable attention. In the article, Andreessen wrote about the growing impact of software: the key point of the article is that software is becoming even more pervasive; it is eating the world. He also made a list of the best-performing companies in many industries that we are familiar with, for instance: