I am an inventor and have founded several companies. Over the years I have become very interested in what makes us creative and whether computers could acquire this skill. There are lots of spiritual arguments to say humans are not just mechanistic but I wanted to know whether there is a hard scientific difference. I think I have found that essential difference in the work I have done and my first book explores this question. I studied Physics and Computer Science at Manchester University, Design at Lancaster University and Engineering at Cambridge University. I live on a farm in Kent, England.