You don't need hard numbers to philosophize about the tech industry, nor economic phenomena in general. Read blogs like ibankcoin/flyblog or zerohedge and you w

You don't need hard numbers to philosophize about the tech industry, nor economic phenomena in general. Read blogs like ibankcoin/flyblog or zerohedge and you will find financial/economic articles written with data that is ancillary. That is, the hard data is not immediately required to make the point.