expensive technology and patenting it in the vain hope that the Chinese won't just copy it because they don't care worth a damn about copyright. Bill Gates, the greatest innovator of our time, gave us Windows in 1974 on the first Intel Chip. Windows has spawned a global IT revolution with its own indices. What most don't realise is that materials of those chips haven't changed worth a damn in over 30 years. This is the limiting factor on our growth which is why our global commerce is governed by Moore's Law that states raw IT processing power doubles every 18 months until approaching a limit. For our lifetimes, which is why we don't question it, Silicon has been used to make chips, such a longstanding part of the furniture is it that we named a valley after it and promoted sand or silica to the basis of all modern computing.
Diamond is the next supercomputer material as the big brother of Silicon, 100 times superior in every way and protected from ever becoming reality by obstructive Secret, Military and Public patents. Instead of making steps forward as a global economy we overpay Patent Attorneys to lead us in circles with quantum leaps sideways. We are all complicit, The DARPA defence agency spirits its fake diamonds, perfect in every way, across the Atlantic via the Royal Navy couriers where they go into the world's only quantum computing and encryption technology. Keeping secrets is withholding from mankind any chance of real progress. Not wishing to be fatalistic but if we don't stop inventing barriers to progress then recession and the gold standard won't be the only thing worth losing sleep over – think mushroom clouds. Don't fake consternation when the markets tank because we aren't delivering our side of the bargain – true progress that should lead to economic growth.
Right now in Paris, there are secret trials of Toyota Prius with plugs on the end for overnight charging - capable of traversing an average commute without relying on its petrol engine which has been demoted to its rightful place as a backup generator – pray tell, is the plug a new invention or have we waited 170 years in vain? Yet again, will this technology ever see the light of day save a PR
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