[rodly]

This is an interesting example of how disruptive technology is. E-commerce is just too powerful a force and the low costs and ease of use will soon demolish our conceptions of what a retail store should be. With rising gas prices, no one wants to drive to a store, spend time searching for products, and be subject to annoying taxes and price hikes that B&M need to have to profit. It's an interesting but scary proposition because as more stores close down and jobs are displaced to programmers/web developers/etc, you get a pool of uneducated workers who saturate the employment pool with good work experience. This leads to lower and lower wages due to obvious excess supply and, well, you know how that goes. This is truly a scary transition that will become more commonplace in the coming years. There will be an uptick in jobs for people like us, but most people, even college students now, have no idea how to do much more than load memes in a "internet explorer thingy firefox". An even scarier question is when will E-commerce no longer need an abundance of highly paid programmers to build their infrastructure? I fear Amazon has nailed the proper way to shop online and their template is just that, a template. Wordpress killed the idea of a unique blog. Everyone can have a wonderful looking site and have no clue how anything works. When everyone can be extraordinary and stand out, no one stands out.

[trafficlight]

This is a little too post-apocalyptic. I think the biggest thing you miss in your argument is that a lot of human beings don't really want to do the same thing as all the other humans. There will never be a point where Amazon is the only option for E-commerce. Wordpress will never be the only blog software option. There are millions of people who won't go to Walmart simply for the fact that it's Walmart.

Honestly, do you think there will be point when we say, "Welp, we've written all the software. Now what?".

[apsurd]

downvoted for short-sidedness