Is Climate Tech eating the world? Observing the anthology of software’s success to drive a "climate proof future".

In 2011, Marc Andreesen shared the prescient statement “software is eating the world”. Now, Climate Tech is reshaping how we live with hardware & sustainability. Are we going through the same process?

Darryl Dickens, category design strategist argues that climate tech has the ability to drastically change how we live, as much as what we observed with software in the past decades and maybe beyond.

It was a prescient statement in 2011 that “software is eating the world” by Marc Andreesen.

The appetite for software has continued unabated since then and has become the overwhelming focus of business spend and growth.  It is intrinsic to any and all initiatives in enterprises, startups, governments, or militaries.

If you break down how and why software ate the world, there are some inevitable conclusions, and also guide us on the next big “feast” that will occur across our economies.

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Intrinsic and participatory

Software is not a nice enhancement to have: it is at the guts of any business and its processes.  Similarly, on the consumer side, it is part of our daily lives.  Consider your most critical connectivity/comms/social device – your smartphone – now considered “90 perc…