Not only have corporate profits blown through the roof on the heels of respectable revenue gains, but insatiable demand for technologically sophisticated infrastructure has remained intact since early in the decade, when China and then India bought into the capitalist, free market model.
This is encouraging, though as Obama's willingness to sign the National Defense Authorization Act shows, all such efforts remain at the mercy of presidents and their insatiable appetite for information.
His legacy, his works born from his insatiable curiosity and his propensity to provoke, remain as an iconic scrapbook of 21st century visual culture.
The longer-term prospects for these companies remain promising given the pervasiveness of the Internet and the insatiable demand for bandwidth, storage, speed and miniaturization of components, subsystems and end products.
As American writer Edith Wharton said, (1862-1937) "In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways".
My appetites are insatiable.
"But its needs are insatiable".
