In The Future, I Can Imagine That

One Problem With Politics Is That It Is A Zero Sum Game, I.e. Politicians Argue How To Cut The Pie Smaller And Smaller, By Reshuffling Pieces Of The Pie. I Think This Is Destructive. Instead, We Should Be Creating A Bigger Pie, I.e. Funding The Science That Is The Source Of All Our Prosperity. Science Is Not A Zero Sum Game.

In Physics, One Of The Most Exciting Areas Is In Nanotech. With Computers Exhausting The Power Of Silicon, Silicon Valley Could Become A Rust Belt, Unless We Can Find Replacements, Such As Quantum Computers And Molecular Computers. To Be A Leader In Any Field, One Has To Have A Great Imagination. Sure, We Have To Know The Basics And Fundamentals. But Beyond That, We Have To Let Our Imagination Soar.

Beyond Work And Love, I Would Add Two Other Ingredients That Give Meaning To Life. First, To Fulfill Whatever Talents We Are Born With. However Blessed We Are By Fate With Different Abilities And Strengths, We Should Try To Develop Them To The Fullest, Rather Than Allow Them To Atrophy And Decay. ... Second, We Should Try To Leave The World A Better Place Than When We Entered It.

I Began To Realize Something - To Understand The Future You Have To Understand Physics. Physics Of The Last Century Gave Us Television, Radio, Microwaves, Gave Us The Internet, Lasers, Transistors, Computers - All Of That From Physics.

I'm A Physicist, And We Have Something Called Moore's Law, Which Says Computer Power Doubles Every 18 Months. So Every Christmas, We More Or Less Assume That Our Toys And Appliances Are More Or Less Twice As Powerful As The Previous Christmas.