We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.

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.

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.

What about the rest of life? Respect for the sanctity of life, if you believe that it begins at conception, cannot end at birth.

In a hyper-connected world where average is over, there is one thing we know absolutely for sure: Every good job will require more education.

We need to become energy independent or at least aspire to that.

The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.