SJ Mercury: The year in tech: the highs and lows. Dan Gillmor. The events of Sept. 11 cast a long shadow over 2001, and last week we looked at the technology year solely in the context of the attacks and their aftermath. Now let's look at the rest — the highlights and lowlights, sometimes intertwined, that kept making the tech world so endlessly fascinating and important. [Tomalak's Realm]