By David Sarno, Los Angeles Times
As family and close friends planned for a private funeral for Steve Jobs, the technology world was left pondering whether one of its most innovative periods might have come to an end. For the last 30 years, the story of personal technology has in many ways been the story of Jobs and his successes: from the first popular home computer to the machine on which the Web was invented — and now iPods, iPhones and iPads, the most talked about, written about and imitated devices anywhere. All of them were the brainchildren of Jobs, a technologist whose relentless perfectionism and long experience helped set the technology agenda for decades. But now that consumer technology has lost the figure who had plotted its course for so long, will his absence leave the industry without a clear direction?
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-jobs-next-20111008,0,4304511.story
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