[Lear]

Question: Given everything you experienced during your travels, do you have a prediction for what city might be the next hotspot for geniuses?

I don’t. I don’t see a lot of bright lights, partly because of the problem of specialization. Berlin is obviously a creative city right now: it’s both in the art scene and to some extent in the high tech scene, and it’s good when you have disparate fields like that because they tend to play off from one another. So in the short term, I’m optimistic about Berlin.