Don't want to sidetrack from the main conversation, but Nathan Myhrvold seems to have a very impressive past [1]. He studied QFT under Stephen Hawking at Cambridge.
By all accounts he's remarkably accomplished and intelligent. To make everything worse, he's already impossibly rich. It's as if he's decided to just make the world a worse place because he can.
[1] " It's as if he's decided to just make the world a worse place because he can."
That makes him sound like the love child of an Ayn Rand ubermensch and an L. Ron Hubbard hero.
Ends do not justify means, etc
Now if he'd just dissolve IV and concentrate on the cooking...
P.S. Here are some other interviews he has done with Rose over the years:
1998.02: http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/5101 [on Terraserver]
1998.06: http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/4849 [on Microsoft]
2004: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1186228177272865169 [first IV interview]
2010: http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11022 [on IV]
2011: http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11562 [Book Tour]