2018 will be the software industry’s ‘seat belt’ moment

GUEST: Sixty years after the first Ford Model T rolled off the production line, Congress passed a law requiring the installation of seat belts to address public safety concerns. Many auto manufacturer lobbyists claimed this would be the end of the U.S. car industry. But of course, it has saved millions of lives.
It looks like 2018 will be the software industry’s seat belt moment. The introduction of GDPR in Europe, rulings on the rights of contract workers on the gig-economy platform in bo