[pyre]

If things did lead to decentralization, I would celebrate such a thing. In general, decentralization wouldn't necessarily be the death of the software industry, just of centralized gatekeepers in specific areas. Things like Big Data(tm) (gathering and analysis) would be hard to decentralize.

[_urga]

Big data is exactly the kind of thing to decentralize: see p2p.

[pyre]

Someone has to gather all of the data into one place and crunch numbers on it to make it useful.