July 09, 2012

July 09, 2012

Can’t concentrate today.  Haven’t been able to for the past few weeks.  New ideas, recent insurgent reports, the ubiquitous eye of OMI watching me…how can I NOT be distracted?

Setting up the new lab has consumed the last few months.  I have doubts.  I keep wondering whether this is the best course.

How did I become involved in this?

Hopkins’s report on the city surely led me here, that scarcely begins to tell the story (will clarify my thoughts on this further when I get the chance to breathe!).

I needed to express my thoughts, so I guess this will do.  I’m not one to waste money on fancy coverings.  Writing does help…to get it all in words…out of my head.

I need a place to record my thoughts and the most sensitive research notes as I undertake this project, which I’ve simultaneously desired, been inspired by, and dreaded.  This place is the sum of all these things, so it seems fitting that this journal begins here.

Am I being sentimental?  Yes.  Pragmatic?  Absolutely.

Despite my artificial-intelligence-enhanced data recording and storage systems, I learned long ago that anything stored electronically can be retrieved electronically.

I have no illusions that some within this organization wouldn’t hesitate to employ against me the very intrusion algorithms I helped devise if it suited their self-interests.  Keep your friends close and your enemies closer…

And I will.

And so I begin…to learn whether humanity can be saved from itself, and the role I will play in its uncertain destiny.