It used to be that only the most highly skilled software
developers could write applications, and only professional
content producers could provide us with digital data or
content that we could use. In the early days of the PC, we
all bought our software in shrink-wrapped boxes, spending
more money every few years for a new updated version
of our operating system, word processor, or spreadsheet
application. Likewise, we cut and pasted images for our
Powerpoint presentations from ‘clip art’, and played around
with new fonts and features from the software packages we
had bought off-the-shelf.