It allows me to take very good pictures in ex-tremely low light. Which is why you have a videotape by an ordinary citizen of the police beating of Rodney King. That's a real revolution. So we will look back 30 years from now and we're going to say the personal computer was very interesting, but it was the horseless carriage of this whole thing. The deeper I get into this game, the more I come to the conclusion that technological progress really is very, very similar to evolutionary theory.
Innovation is just species mutation.
You have competition for niches and all sorts of similarities. You have constant change, but there are periods when the change is more rapid than other periods. We happen to be in one of those periods where change is especially rapid. And it only goes to reason that in this particular moment in time, the lessons we will learn the most from are the earlier moments in history when there were similar periods of rapid change and expansion.