The information age has been driven and dominated by technopreneurs. We now have to apply these technologies in saving lives, improving livelihoods and lifting millions of people out of squalor, misery and suffering. In other words, our focus must now move from the geeks to the meek.

As three laws were good enough for Newton, I have modestly decided to stop there.

The one fact about the future of which we can be certain is that it will be utterly fantastic.

Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference we should each be treated with appropriate respect.

The exploration of the planets is now closer to us in time than the exploration of Africa by Stanley and Livingstone.

Perhaps no other year before or since 1984 has been awaited with such eager anticipation.

Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of a ll Utopias - boredom.