Constellation: Software's Superorganism

The conglomerate with +500 software companies is a unique compounder.

If ants could speak, they would do so in the first-person plural. 

We will carry this leaf.

We will eat this crumb.

We will burrow this hole. 

Life in the order Hymenoptera is a social one, with identity and endeavor consolidated at the collective rather than individual level. The ant as a solitary being effectively doesn't exist. Instead, it's part of a la…