The year 2011 has been characterized by revolutionary fervor - change is everywhere, often coming out of nowhere, upending the traditional establishment that had held sway for so long. It's a motif that's played out in the streets worldwide as financiers everywhere went from being the wunderkinds and heroes of entrepreneurship to becoming grasping, thieving robber barons, at least in the public perception, and as people tossed out of work, tossed out of their homes, in short becoming the ultimate disposables, finally started fighting back.
There are few people at any given time that can truly be said to have changed the course of civilization by themselves. Steve Jobs, the founder of both Apple and Pixar, was one of those few, and his death today at the too young age of 56 truly marks the end of an era that he, in many ways, helped to create.
I spend a disproportionate amount of my time following the various economic sites on the web, less because I'm interested in enriching my portfolio - I have very little skin in that game - as it is a way to keep track of what's likely to happen in the tech field in the next three months to a year.
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