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Next up in the news from 2000: "Data warehouses on the rise due to increase in data required for machine learning". /sarcasm off

Seriously: APIs were always a thing and always will be as long as different programs have to talk to each other. I just recall the good old "SOA" days with loads of XML in SOAP and WSDL/UDDI [0], when everyone told the tale of solving the interoperability problems once and for all nicely captured by [1]. I agree, how business was handled was different (you had a contract, and wouldn't order with one click and your credit card), however this doesn't mean it is fundamentally new. We will see an increasing shift towards "pay as you go" services you can consume but i wonder where the limits of this trend are as you get highly dependent on thrid party providers to not shut down or raise prices over night, e.g. [2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Services_Discovery

[1] https://xkcd.com/927/

[2] https://www.quora.com/What-is-Google-thinking-with-its-new-M...