Two things are going on at the same time with the flattening of the world: The relentless quest for efficiency is squeezing some of the fat out of life.

So what am I? I guess I would call myself a sober optimist...If you are not sober about the scale of the challenge, then you are not paying attention. But if you are not an optimist, you have no chance of generating the kind of mass movement needed to achieve the needed scale.

McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the builder of the F-15.

Never before in the history of the planet have so many people, on their own, had the ability to find so much information about so many things and about so many other people.

The reason that we are becoming less equal is because of the greater requirements, secure requirements, for a good job. This goes back to the '80s basically, this started changing as globalization and the IT revolution merged, and each started to drive the other.

A golf course should aspire to generate as much energy as it consumes - golf should be leading the way toward energy net zero.

I attended public school with the same group of kids from K through 12.