The science already exists to use new materials in optics, including plastic polymers 10 times faster than current industry technology. Computer chips and other communication equipment will be using photons instead of electrons in the near future. Blodgett and Beauregard lured Wong over because they offered him more creative freedom and no bureaucracy. As a society we marginalize this concept when we equate creativity with our children's ability to wear Abercrombie and Fitch to school. By comparison, these men live at the core of the concept.
Good researchers are quite creative.
They don't run out of ideas. This is bold. This is as creative as it gets. Try buying your company stock back for 39 cents. Here it is.