Hello.

Hello.

Where are you?

I'm in Davis, California.

Okay.

Okay.

I was just wondering if you could address some class issues,

both in terms of this virtual reality and consumers

and in terms of nanotechnology.

Who exactly do envision having access to this? Even in the U.S.?

This is an extraordinary, I know precisely where you're going, and I've been through this loop many times. This is one of two ways. It's either homogenized access for everyone, that would be the atopium view, or you would end up with a benign dictatorship with the select few, the tech elite, where cybernetically enhanced and we

have the inner axis that sort of dictate policies of the rest of the planet.

Well, which of those scenarios do you consider more likely?

That's a tough one.

And today's unfortunate, not so pleasant or positive, but I mean, if you look at the kind of the dark side of the quickening and you see social

degradation plummeting the way it is, you'd have to sort of lean towards the maybe

the benevolent dictatorship rule only because it's the one that might work.

I see much of humanity, and this is going to sound very rude, and I'm sorry, is being spoiled

little brats that are kind of, you know, they go to the bathroom in their own living room.

They're pointing the planet, they're acting stupidly and selfishly, and they just have no, they

just don't get it.

They don't comprehend that we're living inside of a living organism, the thing called

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