The actions I saw in the world around me saw that many people were ready for a revolution. Including myself. I wanted to know what that meant. A lot of people want the changes to be violent, or prophetically self-full fill violence. But the world is changing. And there is data to back this up.

The Data
There's so much of it. To prove my points I have to span all these sources in my head. I don't trust words myself, I need to know where those words come from. Any solution based upon blind faith will be blind.

Before I left for DefCon these thoughts about the speech were swimming in my head. Instead of profit from the Con, I relized that I had an opportunity that was vast. I wanted my speech to be the best it could be.

I had attempted to write it linear form, from beginning to end. It tended to wander, and as things came to me I incorporated them. This isn't the best form to present ideas

I'm glad I lost my hard drive, or rather that bad speech that was on it. I only became glad after I had re-started the speech in outline form. (I also lost some material for the DefCon program...)

I started to expand the outline to my speech (which I later called my "rough draft", which I foolishly assumed would be my "speech notes") into longer passages. We drove to Vegas Monday, arrived Tuesday - exactly 24 hours.

On Fri and Sat I expanded the outline to a full rough draft. I then re-wrote the whole thing from rough draft to final draft. Somewhat wired and very over-stimulated by happenings around me. The "final draft" was over 8 Word-for-Windows pages long. I had not a clue how long this would be. I didn't find the time to verbally go over the entire speech.

No printer was available so Craig lent me his notebook to read it from. The screensaver kicked in twice (I forgot his password once, or rather mistyped it) and I hit page-up about a half-dozen times instead of page-down. The speech lasted an hour, with DT making evil noises at me about 10 minutes before that. Luckily I was almost done, and finished it.

I got no questions. (Which I'm sort of glad for, I was pretty tired at this point).

I did get lots of applause, and more than a couple people approached me afterwards, and asked when my page would be up.

If your reading this, then it's up. It will probably more-or-less permanently changing I assume. I'm learning HTML while doing these pages, so I assume things will improve.

I really am looking for any reactions to the material I've put up. Any additions would also be wonderful. I don't have the time to fully support my arguments, theres too many disciplines, too many areas, too much data. That's why links to organizations who are already providing this data makes this project possible.