Re: What is your outlook?

Description: We're headed for a more educated world.

Transcript:  Well I don’t think you can be pessimistic, but I think that there are some pessimistic trends that I don’t like.  And one of them is the lack of resiliency in our political system.  That does worry me a lot.  And if we continue down that road we will not have the best and brightest going into politics, and that’s harmful for America.  On the other hand I think we’re gonna have a more educated world than we did before.  I think the Internet offers great possibilities for democratizing education.  We get more people learning more things.  So you have to be optimistic.  I mean I think we have some serious challenges from the global environment to wage and income equality which exist, to disease – various diseases – and energy, and other kinds of things.  I’m not sure there’s anything that can’t be dealt with if our political systems are resilient enough to deal with them.

Recorded on: 7/6/07