Back in the summer, I participated in a one day conference-cum-think-tank at Ernst and Young/Cap Gemini's Center for Business Innovation. A big gang of us spent the day shepherded by Geoff Cohen as we brainstormed on the future of software. Now Geoff and Allan Redding have written up the day's discussions in a marvellous whitepaper called "An Open Letter to the Software Nobility," and posted it in PDF form to the Web. It's fantastic stuff, if I do say so myself.
(Thanks, Geoff!)