From Dot Bomb to Hydrogen Bomb

It took a little over seven years for Los Alamos to get from the atomic bomb, as dropped on Japan, to the hydrogen bomb.  Although tested, we are fortunate that no one has ever used the H-bomb in war.  All atomic weapons in service now are H-bombs. A-bombs are obsolete.

This is 2017.  The Dot Bomb era was essentially over by late 2001.  It has taken sixteen years since to weaponize the Internet.

What do I mean by this?

1. The Internet speeded up the pace of business and dramatically lowered the cost of starting a business.  A single person can start a business for a few hundred dollars and be selling product in days.
2. The increased pace of business changed the business landscape forever.  Now the only variable that really matters is "time to market".  Successful businesses go fast, very fast.
3. Since time to market is the most important variable, the pace of software development had to be speeded up, too. Big software projects gave way to rapid, incremental development, since there were too many changes happening too fast.
4. Now we have Agile development, where small chunks of programming are created rapidly and tested, them implemented.  The extreme version of this is called continuous development, where exactly one tiny chunk of programming is done at  a time, demonstrated, them implemented immediately.  Lots of those happen every day at Google and Amazon.
5. Agile methods essentially maxed out the development process.  A development team can only go so fast.  Further improvement in software had to find another pathway.  That pathway was usability.
6. Software has now become much easier to use.  The clearest example of this is in website technology.  You don't have to know what you're doing (in the technical sense) to create a website any more.  Everything is point-and-click, no more programming.  This allows ordinary people to create websites, Internet Software.  They don't need HTML programmers any more. While that is a good thing for ordinary people, it is a very bad thing for web developers.
7. OK, now anyone can create a website with a little configuration and some content typing.  How about the other IT workers?  Can we massively automate their jobs, as well?  Yes, we can, and the result is Cloud Computing, also known as Managed Services.   

Take a look at your own LinkedIn feed.  How many of the posts (ads, really) are about Cloud Computing (and many other names - the key word to look for is "Services")?  I see about 80%.  The remaining posts are people sharing their feelings, thoughts, advice, kvetching, occasional news.

Here are some recent articles:

    Cloud computing just had another amazing, awesome, over-the-top good week
               
    The cloud just cost 5,500 Cisco workers their jobs
               
    Yes, the Cloud Will Kill Jobs—Maybe Even Yours
       
    Are you on the right cloud computing career path?
     
Are there any of you who don't believe this is a weapon, pointed straight at your livelihood?