In fact, there are so many ideas in the 170-page report that some of the best and the brightest have yet to receive the attention they deserve. Insert the CD, access the online music database and select songs using titles supplied by the database. But this time it didn't work. A British civil liberties watchdog called Statewatch grabbed headlines last week with dire predictions that the European Union is about to grant Euro-cops sweeping new surveillance powers. The report portrays Europe on the brink of an Orwellian catastrophe, where all phone, fax, wireless and Internet traffic records would be archived and accessible to law enforcement for seven years.
Any experiment begins with the notion that there is something missing from the big picture.
Some area unexperienced, shapes out of focus, realms yet to be nudged out of the periphery and into common view. Experimentation can be as spiritual as it is scientific, driven by an intense desire to know and sense the universe around us in novel ways.