Game over: with the collapse of the new economy complete, yesterday's dot-commers are only now beginning to understand the odds. (Gazette).

"HOW COULD WE HAVE BEEN so stupid?" In the old new economy, the woman who asked this question was a heroine of sorts, one of those feisty young dot-commers with stock options, mobility and sought-after skills. But the "new" is over now, those great jobs have vanished and many such heroes are asking themselves the same thing.

After all, the technology industry was considered largely immune from the "creative destruction" that was destroying, creatively, the old economy. Sure, a company here or there might fail, but high-tech was going to work out ...