[andy_ppp]

I actually think the opposite, that we are in a period of history where all the software (and arguably businesses) people use day to day go from being crap to fantastic.

A gold rush for good startups I think.

The returns from sitting the right group of people in a room and getting them to make doing something a few orders of magnitude better than it was before is always going to be fantastic.

[icelancer]

I think your theory and the one outlined in the original post are not mutually exclusive. There will be a culling of the chaff.

[debacle]

Modern capitalism has a strong basis on theories of social darwinism; evolution only ever does things well enough to get by.