This document discusses how software is driving various aspects of modern society. It notes that the top companies are now primarily technology companies, the most influential social networks can have hundreds of millions of users, and if you want to evaluate a business you should look at its software stack. It also states that if you want to govern people today it is better to use social networks like Facebook than traditional politics, and that new technologies like apps are what will shape society going forward rather than traditional methods. The document concludes by suggesting that the open source site GitHub is where you can see what new software and technologies are emerging.

2. software driven
reality

4. business politics

5. business

6. 1. Apple
2. Exxon Mobil
3. Microsoft
4. IBM
5. Chevron
business 6. Google
7. Wal-Mart
8. Berkshire
9. AT&T
10. Procter&Gamble

7. business

8. if you want to evaluate an company,
business look at its software stack

9. politics

10. name users
Facebook 700 mln
Qzone 480 mln
Habbo 200 mln
Twitter 200 mln
Renren
MS Live
160 mln
120 mln
politics
LinkedIn 120 mln
Bebo 117 mln
Vkontakte 110 mln
Tagged 100 mln
Orkut 100 mln

11. politics

12. if you want to govern people,
skip politics, politics
go to Facebook

14. society
software

15. society

16. society
modern societies are run by software

17. society

18. society
if you want to build society,
create apps

19. software

20. groupons LBS’s crowdsourcing
family 2.0 health education
augumented reality persuasion mobile
cloud green algorithmic trading
software

21. software

22. if you want to see what’s next,
look at github
software

24. if you want to...
evaluate a business, look at it’s software stack
govern people, go to Facebook
build society, write apps
see what’s next, look at github