Back before the first bubble burst, media techies adopted Bruce Springsteen as a kind of mirror-icon. Whatever Bruce was, they weren't - emotional, at home on the streets, hyper-sensitive. "We gotta get out while we're young/'Cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run" hardly seemed to be a unifying theme from a generation that viewed the future through the prism of a keyboard and computer screen, but the Boss ruled. In back corridors of start-ups, you could hear the digits bounce between business managers:

Back before the first bubble burst, media techies adopted Bruce Springsteen as a kind of mirror-icon. Whatever Bruce was, they weren't - emotional, at home on the streets, hyper-sensitive. "We gotta get out while we're young/'Cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run" hardly seemed to be a unifying theme from a generation that viewed the future through the prism of a keyboard and computer screen, but the Boss ruled. In back corridors of start-ups, you could hear the digits bounce between business