>In my first job at a small start-up, we had tons of physical servers. Now, it’s hard to imagine any "webby” tech company ever interacting with any hardware at all.

My record on predicting tech trends is terrible, but wasn't the outcome of that switch to cloud computing a massive increase in the demand for software developers? For now, at least, it seems that things that reduce the amount of work developers need to do actually increases their value.