"Conversation" by Theodore Zeldin, philosopher,sociologist and historian Prof. at Oxford. Innovation picks-up Zeldin's arguement that conversation is the only way to change the world. It obviously caught my attention as an engaged scientist, technologist and engineer with a long experience of R & D and it's industrialisation (realisation of high quality* marketable products.)

[Quality Experience Defined: Aeronautic aero engine, Nuclear... Electronic Cryogenic...Quality Standards and requirements (higher) based upon a first class Scottish up-bringing and higher education grounding re-enforced ever since]

I strongly wished to put my experience, and unavoidably my value-system to the service and judgement of the widest possible public and hopefully contribute to their desire to do more than their best but to work for the better. I hope this filters through in my blog and the others which followed (6 more) all derived from these same root. I tend to post on and around the Climate Change and Energy theme considered to be the most important challenge facing mankind today and for which my professional experience can be of some significance so of optimal use to the wider public. May they make good use of it.