My primary goal is always to tell a story that will resonate with people on a deeply emotional level.

In virtual reality, it's more about capturing and creating worlds that people are inhabiting. You really are a creator in the way the audience lives within the world that you are building.

Video games as a storytelling medium are, from a mathematical standpoint, a branching narrative. You start at one place, you can go in multiple different directions, and there's a multitude of different endings.

It's weird: you do a TED talk on something, and people think that you suddenly have a lot of answers around the topic.

Some people are really drawn to technology and I liken them to artists.

When digital culture first came along, it was supposed to create more time, by allowing us to shift time around. Somehow instead we've strapped devices to ourselves that ping us all the time.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us - especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

The legend of a cable company trying to break the Internet makes scary bedtime stories for children of telecom geeks, but it is not reality.