In a sense, today's crisis is like a forest fire running through the ecosystem of the economy, clearing out the mature monocultures of the past and allowing a more heterogeneous blossoming of new start-ups to emerge and redefine markets.

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One can see a future where experience-customised versions of Android running on devices like the Amazon Kindle Fire take the low end (or rather, the low initial outlay) market, but traction against the iPad at the high end remains elusive.

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For most people, knowing they're running late for work strikes the fear of God within them and as a result, they move like there's a fire under their feet to get ready.

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