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I want America to go towards the light! God, there`s so many areas where it needs to be patched up and fixed. In general, I want to see America get out of the (Iraq) war, so that we have the money and the energy to do something else. I want us, obviously, to address the environmental problems that are becoming so frightening. The frogs are dying, the bees are dying, the glaciers are melting. I don`t know what has to happen before the world takes notice. And, you know, America always bragging that it is Number One. Well, if it`s Number One, it`s got to take the lead. And it hasn`t taken the lead, so why should other countries fall in line behind us?

So I just got on the phone and the engineer just patched me in and I did reports. I`d get a community leader and bring him to the phone, call up the station and do an interview over the phone with the guy.

I think the new reality that`s converging all this is, you have on the one end this culture of extraordinarily gifted outsiders who have patched together the Internet. And then there`s the rest of the world -- business, education and politics -- that suddenly has woken up to the fact that they desperately need the Internet. It`s very important. And so they become sort of central while still not being in the mainstream.