A Gift Given, Gone

All too often, it is only after someone is taken from us that we come to learn how much the rest of us owe him or her. Such is the case (at least for me) with Aaron Swartz, whose genius, coupled with the profound sense of fairness and justice that is one of the hallmarks of giftedness, gave us so much more than we realized: http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2013/01/remembering-aaron-swartz