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1. Bill Gates: Living with the Coronavirus for the Next Year or Two https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/19/bill-gates-living-with-coronavirus-for-next-year-or-two.html 2. Bill Gates: Coronavirus Vaccine Could Be Ready by Mid-2021 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/25/bill-gates-coronavirus-vaccine-ready-mid-2021 3. Bill Gates: Coronavirus Could Have Been Stopped Earlier https://www.foxnews.com/world/bill-gates-coronavirus-could-have-been-stopped-earlier 4. Bill Gates On The Coronavirus Response: ‘We’re Not Doing Very Well’ https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bill-gates-coronavirus-response-not-doing-well_n_5e7cdc8dc5b6f45d98b9d15c 5.
Australian startup Synchron, backed by Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, looks set to beat Elon Musk's Neuralink to market with a safe, reliable brain-computer interface that any hospital can quickly install – without cutting a hole in your skull.
Bill Gates-backed startup Antora Energy is preparing to roll out a containerized, modular heat battery, designed to store renewable energy at the lowest possible cost – then release it efficiently as electricity or industrial process heat.
Two Rwandan companies have been announced among 29 African healthcare start-ups that will get funding from Investing in Innovation Africa (i3), an initiative funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
It looks nothing like a typical "fan on a stick" wind turbine, but this oval track with evenly spaced wing blades could be an enormously disruptive addition to the renewable energy mix, since it slashes the cost of wind power to unprecedented lows.
Bill Gates has helped break ground to mark the construction of the first next-generation nuclear reactor in the United States. The joint project by TerraPower and the Department of Energy plans to build a sodium test reactor in Kemmerer, Wyoming by 2030.
Bill Gates has thrown his weight – and his money – behind a startup making a rich, fatty spread akin to butter, using just carbon dioxide and hydrogen. And this is just the start, with milk, ice-cream, cheese, meat and plant oils also in development.
Bill Gates recently wrote that, “The development of AI is as fundamental as the creation of the microprocessor, the personal computer, the Internet, and the mobile phone.” Yet the unspoken problem is that none of those technologies, except for the Internet, had a significant impact on productivity. In fact, since 2005, we seem to be caught in a second productivity paradox. In 2016, while researching my book Mapping Innovation, I noticed that we were entering a new era of innovation, which became the title of the last chapter. That’s largely become true, we are on the precipice of leveraging a number of new technologies including, along with artificial intelligence, things like quantum computing and synthetic biology. Yet as we have seen clearly throughout history, it is ecosystems, not inventions that truly change the world and we are the crucial missing link. It took the redesigning of factories to make electricity impactful and the reorganization of retail to make the automobile a transformational technology. Whether these new technologies have an impact depends more on us and how we put them to use than any details about the technology itself. Using large language models to dump more crap on the Internet, will not get us far, just as our newfound ability to shape the genetic code will not fix our broken healthcare system. The future of technology is always more human and that has never been more true than today. As Todd McLees points out, it is on human skills and human behaviors that we must focus to tackle the challenges ahead.