The EU Constitution is something new in human history. Though it is not as eloquent as the French and U.S. constitutions, it is the first governing document of its kind to expand the human franchise to the level of global consciousness. The language throughout the draft constitution speaks of universalism, making it clear that its focus is not a people, or a territory, or a nation, but rather the human race and the planet we inhabit.

Being both entrepreneurial and social is no longer an oxymoron, but rather a tautology.

We are already producing enough food to feed the world. We already have technology in place that allows us to produce more than we can find a market for.

t century, hundreds of millions - and eventually billions - of human beings will transform their buildings into power plants to harvest renewable energies on site, store those energies in the form of hydrogen and share electricity, peer-to-peer, across local, regional, national and continental inter-grids that act much like the Internet.

The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms.

One thing I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There's no fait accompli to any of this.

The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families.