I'm in the midst of reading Call of the Wild which got me thinking about parallels between the Gold Rush and the Dotcom boom. The same compelling spirit of possibility continues to spark frantic leaps into new technologies. 

Chris stole my glasses. Thanks to some fancy thumb wrestling on my part I've recovered them. 

Side note, despite all of our technological advances in the new millennium I'm terrified that a group of people put their heads together and decided that what we really need is more 90210. Ugh. How uninspiring.