Is anyone passionate about technology any more?

I've been think a lot about Bill Evans lately.  I own almost all of his early music and have built a rather large collection on my iPod.

Bill Evans did one thing well - he was a jazz pianist. One of the earliest and one of the best. That's all he did in his career.  He never produced music,  never sang, never acted.  Only jazz piano.  

When I first got started in this business, as a software developer,  I was passionate about what I did.  I loved algorithms in graduate school and ate up operating systems.  I still feel passionate and love what I do.  I never want to do anything else - marketing, sales, etc... I am a technologist.  That's all.  

At some point in this business, perhaps around the time of the bubble,  people came into this industry to make it rich and strike it big.  Several left after the bubble.  I know a couple of guys who left and went into real estate.  

I wonder if this has changed our business permanently.  Is anyone in technology because of passion anymore?  Are there any other Bill Evans in this industry?