I see "Bucky" as an aviator. These early days it was a wonderful new experience, and politics, nations and bounderies weren't how the world was run - as thought by people voting for politicians, parties or governments. Therefore his decidedly apolitical stance. Yet where will new technologies be nurtured?

In June, 1989, in New York City, Trombly and Farnsworth physically demonstrated a small solid state electrical transformer that measurably showed an efficiency of 54:1. Adam then walked down the street to the United Nations to give an address. From the point of view of one who witnessed this event firsthand, I can't believe the entire world didn't change as a result. One of the reasons I asked Adam if I could write this piece is because it is now ten years later and the American people, in particular, have still not gotten the message that there is an entirely new and benign option to the current death spiral of humanity. As the result of ignoring the opportunity that was presented on that day in 1989, the world still suffers under the tyranny of fossil fuels and a global power structure which seems bent on the eradication of all species.

There are limits to the size of atoms as there are to stars.

Maybe small independent nations, like Scotland should be, can show initiative in the aftermath of super-power politics.