The fundamental challenge is that people like me simply do not trust the federal government any longer.

I'm not as convinced as a lot of people are that man-made climate change is the threat they think it is.

We have a mentoring and angel investing programme. We are also talking to the government to help create a VC industry.

There's social media where people's politics are out there, they're forwarding articles and seem engaged, but it's only online. We tweet and pat ourselves on the back, thinking we have done something, said we're interested, but it needs more work.

As a society, I think we express our cultural mores through our politics. We're trying constantly to figure out what's OK and what's not OK. And it's hard, because our society is constantly buffeted by gale force winds of technology. Things are always changing.

The Internet can empower groups whose aims are in fact antithetical to democracy.