We live in a society where our pursuit of authenticity is more important to us than ever, but we've created a society which is also extraordinarily fake. I want to understand this and understand how we can fight back.

If you want to rebalance, you have to understand that you must rebalance from construction and finance into something else. But what? It's very hard to see where any sustainable growth can come from.

Currently, we find ourselves at a fascinating juncture technologically, where advancements have vastly expanded our capabilities to manage and interpret large-scale data. Computational methods have now surpassed human abilities in certain areas, a milestone that, until as recently as last year, seemed distant. This achievement indicates that the expense associated with intelligent data processing is decreasing.

America has a class system, and it's becoming more rigid all the time. As inequality widens the damage spills over to children, and the ladder becomes so long that you have little hope of getting too far up it in your lifetime.

We have been interested in celebrities since the dawn of time. Jesus was the first celebrity, then the royal families. Celebrity culture exists even at a micro-level... It's human nature to be interested in the captain of the football team, the head cheerleader or who is doing what with who.