Not only are we reading life code, we're beginning to copy it through cloning, and we're beginning to write, and in the measure that we do that, boy, you can build a lot of very powerful companies in a short period of time.

When you brought the Industrial Revolution in, all of a sudden India and China went from being the dominant global powers to being powers dominated by those who understood how to apply this new technology.

Anytime you bring a really powerful new technology to market there are multiple implications. You start changing the relative position of countries.

When you brought the digital revolution in, all of a sudden, you could build a country like Singapore and take that country, which had the income per capita of Ghana in 1965, and make it something similar to the United States in one generation.

It's not completely inconceivable that someday you'll be able to download your own memories.

I've always been interested in why countries appear and disappear. And the curious thing is how often it happens.

There is so much extraordinary opportunity if you're curious, if you're interested.