About the Author

David Sayre Dayton’s engineering career has been in communication and energy, and his non-profit work in criminal justice. He is a principal architect of the municipal “Energy Alliances” now proliferating from Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Cincinnati, Ohio, to other jurisdictions around the U.S.

He is the inventor of “chirp” fm radio and a form of energy performance contracting now in wide government use.

It turns out the sciences of communication and energy are both based on reducing “entropy,” which measures both ignorance and decay.

Sayre has spoken and published widely on these sciences and their implications for human advancement. In this, his first book for general audiences, The Great Improbability establishes a new kind of fiction, melding rational with spiritual thinking in a consistent metaphor and poetic story-telling. Its voice, based on Sayre’s personal history, calls out of prisons and asylums and ghettos and reservations, from the Pentagon to the concert hall, the laboratory to the board room. In them all he has found a common resonance with the voice of the people.

David Sayre is the father of five children and five companies. He writes in Vermont, Massachusetts and North Carolina.