A Frog in the Valley

The Most Important Software Innovations

Too many people confuse software innovations with other factors, such as the increasing speed of computer and network hardware. This paper tries to end the confusion by identifying the most important innovations in software, removing hardware advances and products that didn't embody significant new software innovations.

This paper presents its criteria for the most important software innovations and sources, the software innovations themselves, discusses software patents and what’s not an important software innovation, and then closes with Conclusions.

Good read. Perspective in history is a great relief from the daily grind of the digg hype flow… The title of the post is from a George Santayana famous quote.