I never really thought about being a director. I just wanted to be an actor. But as I got older, I realized that I wanted to have more control over the films I was in.
Your smarts will come in handy because you will travel in a land of marvels. We humans -- plodding as we are -- will astonish ourselves. We'll invent ways to generate clean energy and a lot of it. Atom by atom， we'll assemble tiny machines that will enter cell walls and make repairs. This month comes the extraordinary but also inevitable news that we've synthesized life. In the coming years， we'll not only synthesize it， but we'll engineer it to specifications. I believe you'll even see us understand the human brain. Jules Verne， Mark Twain， Galileo， Newton -- all the curious from the ages would have wanted to be alive most of all right now. As a civilization， we will have so many gifts， just as you as individuals have so many individual gifts as you sit before me.
If you lose or forget to bring a cable，adapter or charger，check with your hotel. Most hotels now have a drawer full of cables，adapters and chargers others have left behind，and probably have the one you are missing. You can often claim it after borrowing it.
