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I have had a most fortunate life. I cannot say that there was anything special about it. I was born and raised in Chicago and its suburbs. I have had a deep love of science and engineering for as long as I can remember, taking watches and other mechanical things apart when I was five years old and building wooden models with razors by the time I was 7 or 8. I did not excel in school, but I did ok and found it irrelevant for too much of my day. My love of physics took me to the University of Chicago where a wonderful counselor Sylvia Halperin changed my life's vector to education. Since the first days I started on that path when I set my goal on revolution, I have sought to combine creativity and technology to enable every child to learn to the fullest extent of their dreams... I started by teaching physics first in the high school I had attended, Rich Township. It was in those early teaching days that I had the great good fortune to have found the singular idea that led me to the..