So that left me only with the last part of the theme – the 21st century, where I also do not have any comparative advantage as we are all experiencing it together. But let us begin there, at the outset of the third decade of this extremely eventful century. Technology is all around us.
We carry it in our pockets, and some of you are right now stealing glances at your mobile phones, wondering when I will finish speaking so that you can continue browsing, and chatting, and WhatsApping pictures and videos. Some of you are even using this ubiquitous technology to take videos of this very speech.