He can read the implications of the lengthening transition from research to practical application and can see the need for an essentially new relationship between science and technology.
A fast, flamboyant shotmaker in his prime, whose acute non-verbal intelligence instantly read the implications of any configuration of the balls, he constantly undermined his extraordinary talent with self-destructive excess.
But when you consider what it is you are reading, the implications and the stinging criticisms levelled, the blood does flow.
The real point is that a successful military experiment will enhance that initiative and it is from the military detail as much as anything that other governments, including Mrs Thatcher's, can read the political implications.
Since then, representatives of Ryan's office, as well as the Trump White House, have insisted up and down that nobody should read the rather obvious implication of the president pointedly urging his most ardent fans to be in front of their televisions as Pirro's show opened.
"He'll read the agreement". Everyone else, the implication was, would ignore it.
But a patina of menace soon becomes apparent as you read the details and digest the implications.
"We will take time to read the report, study its implications and formulate the appropriate response".
The implication, as I read the letter, is that the United States should tie itself more closely to European banking practices, on capital and regulation more generally.
His 1997 book, Darwin Among the Machines, is one of the most thoughtful books I've read on the implications of distributed, networked computing power.
