It is 11am on Nov 4 2012.
It encourages me a lot to know that
there are hundreds of thousands of fellow human beings across the world who
continue to exercise their faculties to innovate and improvise on solutions
that impact their individual livelihoods, and I am also inspired to realize
that there are people like Peter Neumann, who in his eightieth year continues
to think laterally on possible innovations that will make computers and
computer networks resiliently adaptive in terms of security. I recently read a
report on how this pioneer in applied mathematics and computing is leading
teams that are asking questions such as “How do you kill the computer to save
it?”
Innovation requires bold
experimentation, and even the most successful of innovators fumble and fail in
some of their experiments. I was reminded about this simple home-truth
yesterday when I attended a fusion music concert by India’s well-acclaimed
Santoor (an Indian string instrument) exponent Rahul Sharma who attempted to
fuse his music with South African saxophonist Buddy Wells and Carnatic music
Kanjira (a percussion instrument) exponent SelvaGanesh. The experiment can at
best be described as “not a disaster”. But music lovers would clearly have
realized the potential for such a fusion of instruments by noticing what was
wrong in the choice of the compositions! And therein, I realized, lies the
beauty of experimentation – it gives an enormous opportunity to learn and
improve and perfect!
Wishing you all a great week ahead.
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