[applause] >> thank you, zoe baird budlinger. while they are getting seated and all, let me say that this evening we are honoring the three of them for their service to technology society, but the reason that my old hero, eric schmidt and dick costello, my longtime friend -- young and longtime. it is not only to talk as a technologist, but something that we have been talking about a lot this summer, which is the effect of technology on democracy and on world affairs. the best book to be written next year, will be written by eric and derek cohen about the effects of technology in the arab spring, but also the democracy movement in this country, obviously, dick, if someone had said on twitter, is looking about how it changes our society, our democracy, and for that matter, the world. at dinner a night or two ago, he is the head of usaid, and he said that gigi abraham sitting there, tweeting the location of a demonstration in kinnaman square, it is something that she had learned at a class, the american university in cairo, called s