The digital ecosystem: An “inherit” disruption for developers?

Abstract

This chapter shows a developers’ view of the dynamics in the Internet ecosystem. The chapter analyses what is happening in the world of developers, what they do and how the Internet is seen from the thousands of start-ups that form it. Do developers think that there is a disruption that is the same or equivalent to what the big Internet companies create in other scopes? That is the research question the chapter aims to explore. The chapter starts by illustrating the evolution of programming languages over the past decades so as to better understand the evolution of developers’ logic and the different developer profiles. It also discusses some of the possible future scenarios that might be expected, from the perspective of developers and start-ups and their role in the Internet ecosystem as a whole. The chapter concludes by discussing the potential utility and adequacy of the epigenetic (i.e. EED) approximation for studying developer-related dynamics in the previous scenarios and raises the possibility of their being studied from a quantum approach.