Tending toward the software-defined and software-driven world

Every common and casual thing in our mid gets digitized in a systematic manner to be extremely computational, communicative, responsive, and active. With a variety of network options, every kind of embedded system (small and large) becomes interlinked with one another in order to be purposefully discoverable, accessible, assessable, interoperable, and collaborative. That is, all kinds of heterogeneities and complexities that constitute a significant barrier in terms of enabling digitized objects and connected devices to talk to one another in a sensible fashion are being immediately decimated through software-enabled abstraction techniques and tips. It is a well-known and indisputable truth that software eats the world. Every device, consumer electronics, industry machine, flying drone, humanoid robot, medical instrument...