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What can be done that makes sense in the broad context of this extraordinary world in the next 20, 30, 40 years?
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Invest in people; it’s too hard to figure out big picture thematic things about what technology is going to be.
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Although people’s lives become more transparent, there is more transparency into the government or into other institutions as well.
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Although here are elements of technology that are actually centralizing, essentially technology is decentralizing society.
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There’s a lot of potential for both very good and very bad things in people.
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The U.S. will be in a more competitive situation with other countries than it has been for a very long time.
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With a background both in technology and finance, Thiel founded the global payment system Paypal.
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We should be experimenting to find a better way of educating our kids.
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It’s not at all clear, Thiel says, that income disparities are growing globally.
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Health care is too much of a public good to be left to incompetent government programs.
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A government that spends 10 to 15 percent of its GDP while building institutions to protect people and property.
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PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel defends free markets and social liberalism.
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The co-founder and CEO of PayPal, Thiel is currently the President of Clarium Capital Management.
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Thurman talks about what he loves about Chinese Civilization and China today.
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Thurman would go after the media and reestablish the Fairness Doctrine.
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Thurman talks about what needs to change in media and its affect on the political process.
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Thurman talks about how the United States was once the closest country in history to achieve certain Buddhist ideals, but that it has been subverted.
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Thurman talks about what we need to do to fix it.
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Thurman talks about a recurring dream and why hes worried it will not become a reality.