The spread of liberal democracy and the integration of the world economy have created a situation in which the major powers are no longer willing to go to war with one another.

"Memory is a strange thing, it doesn't work like I thought it did. We are so used to thinking of it as a camera or a tape recorder, but it's not like that at all. It's more like a painter, who adds and subtracts elements according to his own rules."

The future competition is about data, and even more about data processing capabilities.