Programmers seem to have forgotten the real purpose of software, that is to solve a real-world problem.

50 years ago, in 1968, the Working Conference on Software Engineering was held, sponsored by the NATO Science Committee. People started to notice software was becoming a fundamental part of society at that time. However, it was also becoming too hard to understand. After that conference, programming started to become a whole industry. It started to move away from the control of business people.