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software

[sawft-wair, soft-] / ˈsɔftˌwɛər, ˈsɒft- /


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Hardware scarcity assumptions do not survive compounding software improvements.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026

That’s because the loan market doesn’t have to contend with just software and its artificial-intelligence risk.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

“These are the people who have been running the government,” said Miller, who made a fortune developing education software.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026

When decisions about food allocation cannot be reviewed or explained, control moves away from human judgment and into software.

From Science Daily • Apr. 5, 2026

But even the best software isn’t smart enough to assign trees reliably, so writers cannot offload the task of minding the tree onto their word processors.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker