I'm an optimist.

Well, I'm an optimist. I mean basically I'm an optimist.

Helen is by nature an optimist.

I am an optimist by nature.

You're supposed to be the optimist around here.

I am by turns an optimist and a pessimist.

You're a Californian utopian. You're a wild eyed optimist.

Well, I'm not an optimist, neither am I a pessimist.

But for me, I have another reason to be an incurable optimist.

You're an optimist, sir. See, I had you figured for a grouch.

So call this the optimistic optimist is that I sell a million cupcakes.

And it didn't matter if you're an extreme optimist, a mild optimist or slightly pessimistic, everyone's left inferior frontal gyrus was functioning perfectly well, whether you're Barack Obama or Woody Allen.

The optimist looks into a mirror and becomes more optimistic, the pessimist more pessimistic.

I don't know whether that's going to happen or not, but I'm an optimist.

But before I dive into those I want to admit that I am an optimist.

Now I'm an optimist, so I sort of think it's probably going to do something like that.

And then I'll let you in on a secret, which is why I am an incurable optimist.

I become a huge digital optimist and I start to think that this wonderful statement from the physicist Freeman Dyson is actually not hyperbole.

So I thought this morning I would try to be the optimist, and give reason to hope for the future of the Internet by drawing upon its present.

Now, with all of my optimism, and I am an optimist, comes a healthy dose of caution, or rather, an urgent need to address some pressing, complex questions.

But despite this challenge personally, I'm still a huge digital optimist, and I am supremely confident that the digital technologies that we're developing now are going to take us into a Utopian future, not a dystopian future.

Obviously, I'm the optimist and a big believer in what's going on here, but I think that as even a sober, you know, the most sober, disconnected thinker about this, looking at it from the side, has to conclude, based on the data, that with those kinds of economic forces at play, there is definitely going to be a sea change, and that change is going to be intensely disruptive relative to our concept of our very lives and being, and our identities, as well.