He just released a bunch of mosquitos into the room!
“There’s no reason only poor people should have the experience”
“We spend more on drugs for baldness than malaria.”
Earlier:
“I hope I am not in the “Reboot” session because some people have had to reboot their PCs and associate that with me”
(Edit: I just replace the cell phone image with the high-res camera, 21 MP)
I like your email signature in the description. you should totally change your name to "steve draper fisher jurvetson"
Questions for Bill:
1. Does he still play online bridge with Warren Buffet on Sundays?
2. What did he think of Malcolm Gladwell’s characterization of him as an "Outlier" in his latest book?
3. How much of a hindrance are corrupt governments in getting malaria medications into the right hands?
4. What are the most played tunes on his iPod…err… Zune?
5. Is it getting any easier to carefully disperse the foundation’s vast $$$ to organizations that can really do "good?"
I would ask him what does he think about "money" in general (I know that he thinks that capitalism is not that bad, but it has some issues), about how dependent we are on money in this world and how it shapes everything, if he thinks that money==power or not, or it depends, if he has any idea on how can we build a world less dependent on money, and how is he addressing problems that cannot be solved just by throwing money at them.
About Windows 7 I would ask him why do they offer some many different versions "home", "Premium" etc. when it is just confusing people.
Have fun and enjoy! Looking forward to your 5DEOS Mark-II pictures!
@ rwoodworkr : Al Gore gave a great update-Talk on the subject. Would have been great to have them both on stage together =)
Hope dinner was great ; )
I would ask.. about the future. What if there is nothing new to develop, to improve? Nothing new to be found? _Maybe_our_civilization_has_reached_its_peak and what we will now face is the decline only.. For some years we’ve got no major technological breakthrough. We can communicate almost every person on earth via electronic media (like now), we can eat whatever we like, we can go anywhere. But globalization seems to be ending now, because of economic differences between countries, regions. The world trade is dying, financial confidence is vanishing. So.. what breakthrough could be made. In the last century we invented railroads, cars, airplanes, radio, tv, nuclear energy, laser, cosmic flight, computers, cellphones, internet. What else to be found? I wonder If Bill Gates sees something more innovative and optimistic about the future. Since the beggining of the new century I can see the decline. People invented all to be invented, then began inventing ways to made money out of nothing. And now we’re facing big depression.
Wow.. I could hardly agree less with pawelre. Nine years into this century and already writing off all of civilization? In fact, few of the inventions you list were considered much more than curiosities within nine years of their invention. Welcome to a long line of people who throughout history have guessed that there’s nothing left to learn, only to be proven wrong.
In 2001 we got the first self-contained artificial heart. We also got PageRank, and we already take for granted how much easier it is to find information thanks to it. Perhaps the Large Hadron Collider will point us in the right direction to this century’s greatest advances. I could go on for hours about groundbreaking improvements to science and technology made just this year. Odds are, though, we won’t even know for years more what came in the last nine years that will change the world.
That’s a big part of why I’ve always found Steve’s photostream so fascinating; he gets to travel the world and try to figure out what hasn’t changed the world yet.
TEDTalk Bill Gates: How I’m trying to change the world now
"some clever bugger already made a game for it http://www.feverbeater.com/
ahah, that was quick!"
Tifotter: I got to #3. He highlighted the setback from the Muslim clerics who preached that polio vaccines made the girls infertile. "The anti-vaccine movement has killed many people. It’s frustrating. But we are working with the clerics. It is very hierarchical, so we can start at the top. In the next three years, we will either conquer polio, or we won’t. It’s a very important time."
Here’s a fun puzzle. I just went to the Ukraine this morning and saw a rocket loaded with fuel, and just got back to TED…
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