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Wall Street 2. What did it tell us about our the spirit of the
time we live in, the way the original did about the yuppie
culture and 1980′s optimism? I haven’t seen it so I can’t tell
you for certain, but from what I’ve read the answer to that
question should be ‘nothing’.  Last night I saw the social
network. A new movie about the beginning of Facebook and its
founder Mark Zuckerburg, by Aaron Sorkin, most famous for
creating West Wing. I realized that this is the film that will
be seen as the to capture the essence of the business
environment going into the 2010s (unfortunately the essence
seems to involve 0 smart women, but that is the subject for
another blog post). In many ways, Sorkin has created a Wall
Street for our times.  Most obvious, both Wall Street and the
social network are treating the most hyped industries of their
respective times. The 80s was a time defined by the artificial
engine of the financial sector. There was a lot of ing