A very interesting interview here with Stanford Ovshinsky, co-founder of Energy Conversion Devices although the comparison of him with Thomas Edison is a little over the top. But he is nonetheless clearly ambitious - when asked if he saw ECD as the GE of the 21st century, he replied ;

“Oh, ECD will be much more than that . . .Energy and information are the twin pillars of the global economy, after all.”

Talk about confidence. The man is 84 years old and he exudes life. Someone once said to me that there are 2 types of people - those who inject life into other people and those who suck it out of those around them. No doubt then about which category Ovshinsky is in.