will.i.am

We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us knows how to read and write the code.

You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, it's all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, it's all technology.

Hip-hop culture is probably one of the most powerful things to come out of America in a long time - everything from the music to the art to the dance to the language.

As we develop and get quicker with technology in America, it's like we're downgrading if you look at the investment in education... that's the thing that worries me.

We need creative people working with broadcasters, making smart content to inspire people to be geniuses.

You can get your money and you put it in the bank, or you can put it in the youth. You can put it in our future.

If you really want change, you really want it to be inclusive, where everyone's included, otherwise you're just going to have more of the same in the future.