#7.1 Levels of Formality: For the first exercise of the unit, your task is to make the Harold Pinter Nobel prize-giving speech informal. Re-write the speech using the casual register of Sarah Palin and see if you can manage to convey the same ideas in a different way. You may well find that some of the more complex ideas become lost, but sometimes the challenge with speech writing is precisely this: conveying complex ideas in a style that your whole audience will be able to understand and relate to.

Read the excerpt from the code book. without much hope of a theoretical breakthrough, cryptanalysts have been forced to look for a technological innovation. if there is no obvious way to reduce the number of steps required for factoring, then cryptanalysts need a technology that will perform these steps more quickly. silicon chips will continue to get faster as the years pass, doubling in speed roughly every eighteen months, but this is not enough to make a real impact on the speed of factoring—cryptanalysts require a technology that is billions of times faster than current computers. consequently, cryptanalysts are looking toward a radically new form of computer, the quantum computer. if scientists could build a quantum computer, it would be able to perform calculations with such enormous speed that it would make a modern supercomputer look like a broken abacus. the author’s purpose in this paragraph is to convince the readers to pursue a career in analysis. explain the need for faster technology in cryptanalysis. entertain with interesting stories about supercomputers. argue for more money to develop a quantum computer.