In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik helped us fund good science - really good science: the semiconductor came out of it.
I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.
You can't have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.
3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we're getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we've ever had before.
I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.