Being a visionary is a new profession, but it is really just a variant on fortunetelling, which may be the world's oldest. And its marketing appeal is similar - people will pay for reassurance about the unknown.

Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before.

The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?

The world has shown that if you provide capital and expertise to an area that is starved for capital and expertise, really good things will happen.

One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans.

The way Moore's Law occurs in computing is really unprecedented in other walks of life. If the Boeing 747 obeyed Moore's Law, it would travel a million miles an hour, it would be shrunken down in size, and a trip to New York would cost about five dollars. Those enormous changes just aren't part of our everyday experience.