Software is 'not' the exception
[Kevin Kelly]: In the past few decades, we’ve seen remarkable performance improvements in most technologies—but not in software. Why is software the exception?
Brooks: Software is not the exception; hardware is the exception. No technology in history has had the kind of rapid cost/performance gains that computer hardware has enjoyed. Progress in software is more like progress in automobiles or airplanes: We see steady gains, but they’re incremental.
