It's already been happening for some time, and we're quite far in the process. The mainstream population stops buying computers in favour of mobile devices - tablets and smartphones, which are locked down and dumbed down. Then you have DRM, and the cloud. I fear the next step will be professionalization of software engineering - you may suddenly find yourself in need of an engineering license to be able to legally use a Turing-complete language.
It's already been happening for some time, and we're quite far in the process. The mainstream population stops buying computers in favour of mobile devices - tablets and smartphones, which are locked down and dumbed down. Then you have DRM, and the cloud. I fear the next step will be professionalization of software engineering - you may suddenly find yourself in need of an engineering license to be able to legally use a Turing-complete language.