Over time, yes, countries will need to look at specific GMO products like they look at drugs today, where they don't approve them all. They look hard at the safety and the testing. And they make sure that the benefits far outweigh any of the downsides.

I think that our progress on key diseases over the next several decades is going to be pretty amazing and so I am very interested in that.

Robotics and other combinations will make the world pretty fantastic compared with today.

Until recently, over 98 percent of teachers just got one word of feedback: Satisfactory. If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better.

'I don't know' has become 'I don't know yet'.

Microsoft Research has a thing called the Sense Cam that, as you walk around, it's taking photos all the time. And the software will filter and find the ones that are interesting without having to think, 'Let's get out the camera and get that shot.' You just have that, and software helps you pick what you want.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.