When Programs Vanish
What happens if you stop using applications and something else takes over your decision-making?
For forty years, utilising technology has meant manipulating it: selecting the appropriate application, navigating through the appropriate menu, and entering the appropriate text. That period is coming to an end. Flights, hotels, calendars, purchases, and processes can all be coordinated by artificial intelligence without you ever touching the interface that once stood between intention and outcome. Artificial intelligence is getting to the point where it can understand what you want and act on it immediately.
Written for professionals, corporate executives, developers, and anybody else who wants to know where computing is truly headed rather than where marketing says it has already arrived, When Software Disappears is a clear-eyed guide to this shift.
This book follows the transition from human-operated software to AI-coordinated infrastructure, from apps to agents, and from interfaces to intent over ten chapters. It clarifies: