The software industry and the end of history as we know it

The study of History usually divides history into different eras. At the largest scale, the study of the history of the universe divides this history into three eras, known in consecutive order as the radiation-dominated era, the matter-dominated era, and the dark-energy-dominated era. (We see that cosmologists are not necessarily that creative at naming their eras, but that's okay; if they were,…