Media web sites across the world will have experienced record traffic spikes in the days after Jobs' death with social media monitoring firm SR7 noting that Twitter recorded up to 10,000 Steve Jobs tweets per second at the end of last week. Bin Laden's death and the recent UK royal wedding both came in at only half that rate of response.

The death of Steve Jobs has clearly reached further and wider than many might have imagined. How many world figures today could claim that level of impact I asked a number of colleagues as we discussed the events of last week.