Eric Schmidt

That's why we have to be paying attention.

It's really important that we stick to the values that we have in our society.

I am very, very committed to individual freedom.

It's very easy for a well-intentioned engineer to build a system which is optimized and restricts your freedom.

So it's very important that human freedom be preserved in this.

A lot of these are not technical issues, they're really business decisions.

It's certainly possible to build a surveillance state, but it's also possible to build one that's freeing.

The conundrum that you're describing is because it's now so easy to operate based on misinformation, everyone knows what I'm talking about,

that you really do need proof of identity.

But proof of identity does not have to include details.

So for example, you could have a cryptographic proof that you are a human being, and it could actually be true without anything else, and also not be able to link it to others using various cryptographic techniques.

Well, I'm of the age where some of my friends are getting really dread diseases.

Can we fix that now?

Can we just eliminate all of those?

Why can't we just take these and right now eradicate all of these diseases?

That's a pretty good goal.

I'm aware of one nonprofit that's trying to identify in the next two years all human druggable targets and release it to the scientists.

If you know the druggable targets, then the drug industry can begin to work on things.

I have another company I'm associated with, which has figured out a way, allegedly, it was a startup, to reduce the cost of stage three trials by an order of magnitude.

As you know, those are the things that ultimately drive the cost structure of drugs.