Eric Schmidt

Our industry, our science, everything about the world that we have built is based on academic research, open source, so forth.

Much of Google's technology was based on open source.

Some of Google's technology is open source, some of it is proprietary, perfectly legitimate.

What happens when there's an open-source model that is really dangerous and it gets into the hands of the Osama bin Ladens of the world?

And we know there are more than one, unfortunately.

We don't know.

The consensus in the industry right now is the open-source models are not quite at the point of national or global danger.

But you can see a pattern where they might get there.

So a lot will now depend upon the key decisions made in the US and China and in the companies in both places.

The reason I focus on the US and China is they're the only two countries where people are crazy enough to spend the billions and billions of dollars that are required to build this new vision.

Europe, which would love to do it, doesn't have the capital structure to do it.

Most of the other countries, not even India, has the capital structure to do it all they wish to.

Arabs don't have the capital structure to do it, although they're working on it.

So this fight, this battle, will be the defining battle.

I'm worried about this fight.

Dr. Kissinger talked about the likely path to war with China was by accident.

and he was a student of World War I. Of course, World War I started with a small event, and it escalated over that summer in, I think, 1914.

And then there was this horrific conflagration.

You can imagine a series of steps along the lines of what I'm talking about that could lead us to a horrific,

global outcome.