In the end, the success of any technology is determined by its ability to solve real-world problems.

Is there any relief from some of thesepressures that I've been outlining? I think there is. I just want to turn to afew of them. Let's take meritocracy. This idea that everybody deserves to getwhere they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy. I will support any politician of Left and Right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; I am a meritocrat in that sense. But I think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it's an impossible dream.

"You got to put the past behind you before you can move on." And I think that's what my running was all about.

Hard work, under the old system, meant doing as little as possible.