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Thing two that I think is special is that there’s very little friction here. There’s no commutes; we’re living in a world where it doesn’t matter whether you’re sitting at your desk in your office, you’re sitting in your home, you’re sitting in a coffee shop, you can get work done. Especially with software and Internet-related things, you’re always connected, and as a result, the integration and probably the ability to sustain a level of intensity that’s required is higher.

Mr. Alrais, 51, struggles to understand a system that would have given him a green card if he had stayed in the United States for the full year without a job, instead of working with American forces in Iraq.

I think the next 20 years of innovation around software and the Internet will make the last 20 years look like child’s play. And while the vector of negativity and pessimism continues to follow a steep upward slope, it’ll eventually crest. In the mean time I don’t see an endpoint to the human animal’s desire to innovate.