"We want to confer life and intelligence on everything. We want to see fairies under trees."

Can you see our cars becoming robots?

You can push a button now and they park themselves. We're going to keep piling more smarts into automotive telematics. The robots increasingly will advise you. Then there will be a tipping point -- the insurance company is going to require the robot drives.

When do we start falling in love with the intelligent entity on board?

Some guy's got a book and says everyone is going to have sex with robots in the near future.

But they don't actually exist yet, do they?

I -- I haven't really looked into it.

What's the point of living in California if you don't --

I know. It's hard to keep up with these things.

But let's pick the low-hanging fruit here. The double-knit-suit thing of the next five years is nano finishes on fabrics.

[Nanotechnology involves the manipulation of objects as small as molecules.]

You think they're actually going to take off?

Clothes that don't stain, that you can spill a glass of red wine on and laugh at -- I think that's going to catch on a lot more. We have nano fabrics today but nobody's done anything really fun with them yet.