In a recent seminar at the department of electrical engineering and computer science at Case Western Reserve University, it has been shown how to use the shape of the multi-dimensional probability curve for resources to appraise progress of an innovation process, when no other metric exists. This new tool will help with one of the most vexing challenges of innovation: to know when to hold and when to fold. Until a solution surfaces, it is hard to know if the solution is imminent or far away. Misplaced optimism has wasted a great deal of resources, reducing innovation productivity.

 Complex organic reactions can be carried out by having the ingredient fit as functional groups on monomers, which are then copolymerized. All polymer-form ingredients are then kneaded to achieve intimate contact. Temperature and pressure control  are readily applied, in a very cost effective way.  Potential and range are being investigated. 

History would refer to the current global financial crisis as the Sarajevo shot of the first financial world war, FWW-I.  Cocky from its impressive defeat of communism, capitalism relaxed its posture, ignoring the quiet resurgence of the defeated camp.  As ineffective as communism proved itself in governing, so seductive it is, and always was, with liberal minds, taken by dreamy notions of material equality, and the need to use force to part the rich from their riches.  So communism did what it does best, infiltrate.  Today, the US leading candidate for president proclaims:  “Spread the Wealth” to cheering crowds and the Bush administration does the very same.  Resurgent communism waited for this crisis, and now rushing to exploit it to wage the first financial world war aimed at a strategic defeat of capitalism.  As of today, the theologians and spiritual leaders of market forces, and debt enforcement, are in disarray, shocked by the rapidly developing events.  A financial Churchill though, might make the world safe for financial independence, and the right to be richer than your neighbor.  Alas, so far capitalism is led by Chamberlains who deny the opening of the FWW-I, admit no fundamental mistake, reconcile with no strategic blunder, and alas compromise on the core concept that says that debt forgiveness is charity, not a right.

Cyber detectives are busy these days:  for good pay they can build a dossier on anyone alive today, amassing more details than what that person knows about himself, and they don’t wear a trench coat, nor spend nights in a parked car — they run their keyboards.  And they are the minority.  Most of their kind is on the other side of the tracks.  Your chances to be listed on a hack-black target list is more than 50%.  And with what hackers know about you, they can masquerade as you in untold ways.  It’s time that we all wake up and realize that we are wandering away in the middle of a raging battle, and we better take cover.  I have written a book, a guide, for the new recruit in this unending cyberwar, as well for the seasoned warrior.  It contains a tutorial, a comprehensive security checklist, some incredible cyber stories, and a broad technology primer:  everything you need to prevail in this war, which is destined to rage as long as people occupy the new cyber territory.  Be Safe: [The Unending Cyberwar].

Human progress and innovation happen through a paradigm of trial and error.  Many efforts begin, and terminate with the recognition of taking the wrong path.  If we wish to continue and progress we need to allow many trials, and many errors.  And that allowance translates to privacy:  giving space to individuals to experiment, to explore, to dare.  We need to allow ourselves a private space where we can write with total immunity of invasion, where we can journey into some extreme mental territories, where we could be as nonconforming as we please — and no one, no judge, no government will be in their right violating that private space.  Today any judge on any minor or frivolous dispute can issue a routine discovery order for any intimate expression you ever penned.  No diary is immunized, no corner protected.  You will be hard pressed today to commit to writing your true, embarrassing perhaps, feelings because Big Brother can step in with his dirty boots and use your own private words against you.  We undermine the process that brought us here:  trial and error.  We undermine the rate of evolution, of improvement.  And it’s therefore that we all should pay attention to the emerging technology of cryptographic deniability.  It’s the tool that allows each of us to write and express whatever we wish, to the point that Judges will not even bother to issue discovery orders for private diaries — it simply won’t work.  Read “The Unending Cyberwar” — Your Data Protection Manual.