Discovering Hidden Information Treasures in ECM

04/28/2007

How Do You Find Something Whose Location is Fundamentally Unpredicatable?

Oil might sound expensive today, but in the mid-1800s, it cost around $2 a gallon, equivalent to about $200 in today's money. But that was a different type of oil: whale oil, hundreds of gallons of which are stored in the head and blubber of the whale. The market for petroleum had not yet been developed, and whale oil was prized by the wealthy for burning nearly odorless and smoke free, compared to the stinky and smoky - but cheap - tallow candles used by everyone else.

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