Ideas Are the New Oil

Every time people talk about China being so impressive... Call me when they invent something new. Call me when they come up with some incredible idea that we haven't had and they build some technology that we haven't had. Because, so far, it's all imitative.

The new oil is ideas. It's all digital. All the new fortunes are being created an idea space.

The wealthiest places in the world, now, are the ones that have the best ideas.

If you look at modern society, even though I know this is not the common belief, we're becoming less warlike as we become more civilized.

The moment you add technology to get off of Earth, finite resources go away.