The things that were happening 30 years ago are now very interesting to people, now very much in style again. There is some kind of 30 year resonance that goes through human culture and expresses itself in different ways.

The dolphins and whales have a brain that is actually bigger in proportion to their size than we do. They are very complex. They are thinkers.

How did the dolphins and whales get such big brains? They obviously don't need such big brains to catch fish.

The Japanese don't write in alphabetic writing; they write in pictographs. So they never became visual, they stayed in the oral world, which is, everything is part of reality. Which means that they can accept any new technology  -  it's not threatening to them, and they can still continue to maintain their traditional culture, even in the face of high technology.

I have always wanted some way that you could make a surface in a computer, like you pick up a piece of clay and make sculpture.

Was I a criminal? No. I was a good member of society. Only my society and the one making the laws are different.

Who knows for sure how complex or how uncomplex the ancient people's lives were.