Something from the Wall Street Journal...just the interview with the writer. The picture is a tatoo needle gun made in prison .. an innovation zone.

Job Cuts Spur Innovation
The number of filers for first-time unemployment claims fell last week, though they remain at very high levels. Tom Koulopoulos, author of "The Innovation Zone," tells Kelsey Hubbard of The Wall Street Journal historical periods of high unemployment proceed periods of extremely high innovation.

FD: I think he is just telling us once again that necessity is the mother of invention. And, you might ask, said that?

"Necessity, who is the mother of invention."
Plato, The Republic

Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC)