What books do you want to read?

Murray Bookchin Ecology of Freedom

Ray Kurzweil Singularity is Near

Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince

Eugene Weber Peasants to Frenchmen

Michio Kaku Physics of the Future

Byung Chul Han Burnout Society

And plenty more…

Write about a few of your favorite family traditions.

I don’t talk to the vast majority of my family, and with my mother we have a dinner on Christmas Eve and when the money allows it, we go to Ischia. We don’t really keep any other traditions.

What are your thoughts on the concept of living a very long life?

Look if we could conquer our physical limitations and thus achieve immortality, this would fundamentally change everything. The philosophy, lifestyle, attitude to consumption and the natural world. We would be like the elves of fantasy novels, we could only be destroyed but we wouldn’t be able to die a natural death.