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E-mail, the internet, mobile phones, and microfinance.  At first glance, you might think I'm playing Sesame Street's "Three of these things belong together" game.  But I assure you that, despite my love for the Cookie Monster, I'm not.  It turns out that these four innovations, along with 26 others, have been named the Top 30 Innovations of the Last 30 Years by PBS's Nightly Business Report.

To some, lumping microfinance-- a relatively new concept to much of the world's inhabitants, especially after Muhammed Yunus and his Grameen Bank won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006-- with such staples of our modern life might seem puzzling.