>> overwhelmed with choice? john: i don't use most of the stuff on the cell phone, it's too complicated. >> fair enough. let's look at smaller computers, faster communications, denser engines, denser agriculture, all of these things allowed increasing standards around the world. john: is that a line from the book? all this may be true, some people aren't happy unless they are scared or miserable. what do you mean? >> no politician ever got elected by saying everything is okay. the devil is at the door. you have to elect me, if you don't elect me, ruin nation will come. this is part of the media, if it bleeds, it leads, that is something we see all the time. and yet this continuing increase in living standards all over the world has been truly remarkable. john: now, i'm old, and all my life i've heard, we're going to run out of oil! almost four years ago, my president told me we had to have an unpleasant talk about