Two interesting reads, one technology and the other personal facets of one of the two complex personalities that have had been so driven to drive us into the information age from the electronics age. A trip down the memory lane, one reminding us of our humility in the face of frail human body the other working hard on challenges bigger than technology and information. How would later generations look at this dawn of information age, after they have internalized the wonders..

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-steve-jobs-nobody-knew-20111027

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/magazine/and-then-steve-said-let-there-be-an-iphone.html

“Let me be more specific: One faction of one party in one house of Congress in one branch of government shut down major parts of the government, all because they did not like one law.” President Obama

With hundreds of laws passing over scores of years, irony is why have the shutdowns not been frequent and common place. Maybe some people who don't like certain laws are more adult than some other juvenile ones?