Yes, the world is now flat for publishing as well.

Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards.

The poverty fighters resent the climate-change folks; climate folks hold summits without reference to biodiversity; the food advocates resist the biodiversity protectors. They all need to go on safari together.

There is a connection between energy, climate, food and political stability. That has played out in the Arab awakening and is not done playing out.

Basically all the world's computer parts come from the same supply chain that runs from Korea, down through coastal China, over to Taiwan, and down to Malaysia.

When you lose your job, the unemployment rate isn't four percent, it's 100 percent.

I firmly believe that the next great breakthrough in bioscience could come from a 15-year-old who downloads the human genome in Egypt.