In 2012, Michael Saylor published a book, The Mobile Wave: How Mobile Intelligence Change Everything We Do. The book jacket summarizes: ” Saylor explains that the current generation of mobile smart phones and tablet computers has set the stage to become the universal computing platform for the world. In the hands of billions of people and accessible anywhere and anytime, mobile computers are poised to become an appendage of the human being and an essential tool for modern life.”
In 2017, Saylor gave a speech discussing his ideas:
One of the themes of the book was the dematerialization of products and services from the physical world into the cyber worlds. So many things that used to be a product, like a camera, like a printer, like a typewriter, now they are actually software applications or icons on your iPhone.
Oftentimes, as they dematerialize, they became not just pieces of software, they became entire software networks.
-Michael Saylor