The Interchanging Roles Of Hardware And Software In Fueling Innovation
Gestalt IT, Thursday, August 8th, 2024
A question that has bent the mind for ages is 'What really came first, the chicken or the egg?' An equally confounding question that has lately got many tech insiders scratching their heads is - What's driving innovation? Is it hardware or software?
At the Networking Field Day event, Ed Horley, IT professional, author, and Field Day delegate, raised this question. Next day, him and the attending panelists met over a delegate roundtable to sink their teeth in and get to an answer.
Software and hardware have been locked in an incessant cycle of innovation for the past decade. New inventions in one category have been followed by even bigger disruptions in the other. So, it's hard to put a finger on which of the two is ahead, or perhaps, which is a bigger catalyst to innovation. It's quite a chicken-or-egg situation.