So, all we would need to do is to fit a small microchip to every potential illumination device.

This, the ability to take real world phenomena and make them something a microchip can understand, is, I think, the most important skill anyone can have these days.

Also today's military revolution in energy efficiency is going to speed up all of these civilian advances in much the same way that military R amp D has given us the Internet, the Global Positioning System and the jet engine and microchip industries.