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>I think there are some very useful lessons for us to learn from how the Web has evolved, in terms of predicting how our industry has evolved and part of the reason for that is - this is already how our industry is evolving. Generally speaking, when new technologies appear they commonly become smaller and smaller parts that are then combined into more advanced systems, so if you look at the Web you’ll see a stage where everything was monolithic, there were large single systems that didn’t even communicate with other systems, they were closed systems and this was really the beginning of the Web. These systems didn’t interact with each other, they had very specific purposes and those very specific purposes were all they really did, kind of similar to having to choose a single chain with only a single set of things you can do. Then we moved onto a service oriented architecture in the Web where you actually pulled apart parts of those big monolithic systems and you made them into little separate parts that could be combined into more advanced applications. This is where the web applications of the 2000’s came from, it’s from this innovation and how you build web applications and web systems. If you look at how web applications and web systems are built today, they’re built through something called micro services. Micro services are basically hundreds of little small individual specific services that are stringed together to create the complex applications that you’re used to such as Amazon e-commerce, Netflix, Uber and any number of things that basically touch your lives in a very meaningful way.