You would think that we might have developed enough software by now in 2017 as we close the year and look forward to 2018. It appears not. There is still massive growth in the software industry and tech analysts are spending even more time trying to fashion their predictions for and of the road ahead. So what’s coming next?  It should be no surprise to learn that major platform-level shifts are changing the way we use hardware technologies and the software that drives them. The so-called Internet of Things (IoT) and all the devices, sensors and higher-level machines that populate it have given rise to many new software services, ever-spiralling growth of data analytics and a new renaissance for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the machine learning systems that make AI happen.