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Daily Archives: December 11, 2011
2011 in 20/20 vision
Technology review 2011: Twitter rules, BlackBerry crumbles and TS Eliot is reimagined.
That’s how the Observer summarised my retrospective look at the world of technology in 2011. I did also write about Facebook’s ‘valuation’, Apple’s extraordinary year, government fantasies about the employment potential of start-ups, HP, Nokia and the role of social networking in political upheaval.
All seen with the 20/20 vision of hindsight, of course.
Quote of the day
Maybe it was always thus, but the relentless wrong-headedness of the Europeans, their insistence on seeing their crisis as something it isn’t, and responding with actions that deepen the real crisis, has been a wonder to behold. In the 1930s policy makers had the excuse of ignorance; there was nobody to explain what was happening. Now, their actions amount to a willful disregard of Econ 101.
Paul Krugman, writing in his blog.