In the last year or so, I have made more progress with getting practical projects going than in the previous five.

Basically people are running out of conventional options, so it's a variation of Sherlock Holmes' dictum that if you eliminate the impossible, that leaves only the highly improbable.

In particular, I have got several excellent connections and opportunities/projects in the US, and am planning a trip (as yet unfunded) around a speaking engagement in Philadelphia at the end of April.

"The future is already here -- it's just not very evenly distributed" William Gibson