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Bill Gates: Internet Will Not Save the World
quantr points out an interview with Bill Gates in which he talks about setting priorities for making a difference in the world. Quoting:
"The internet is not going to save the world, says the Microsoft co-founder, whatever Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley's tech billionaires believe. But eradicating disease just might. Bill Gates describes himself as a technocrat. But he does not believe that technology will save the world. Or, to be more precise, he does not believe it can solve a tangle of entrenched and interrelated problems that afflict humanity's most vulnerable: the spread of diseases in the developing world and the poverty, lack of opportunity and despair they engender. 'I certainly love the IT thing,' he says. 'But when we want to improve lives, you've got to deal with more basic things like child survival, child nutrition.' These days, it seems that every West Coast billionaire has a vision for how technology can make the world a better place. A central part of this new consensus is that the internet is an inevitable force for social and economic improvement; that connectivity is a social good in itself. It was a view that recently led Mark Zuckerberg to outline a plan for getting the world's unconnected 5 billion people online, an effort the Facebook boss called 'one of the greatest challenges of our generation.' But asked whether giving the planet an internet connection is more important than finding a vaccination for malaria, the co-founder of Microsoft and world's second-richest man does not hide his irritation: 'As a priority? It's a joke.'"
what about win8... surely that will help
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How about the children of the Microsoft orange badge employees who never got benefits, regular schedules, raises, job security or promotions?
They also were not allowed to buy from the company store or ride the company bus. How did that affect their family? Did they have time to spend with their children?
Shall we go into Microsoft's well known support for offshoring tens of thousands of jobs to a place where children live in 8x8 concrete hovels and work for $1.80 a day?
Hey Bill, you know you spent $100 billion on R&D for Windows. We could have cured malaria 1000x over for that. In fact, we could have solved every major epidemic mankind has ever faced for $100 billion. Instead we got Windows 8.
Nice job, Bill.
Imagine having a library in your village that could show you how to build water condensers, new farming techniques, basic chemistry that could improve your quality of life, really ANY piece of information you could conceive of as well as the ability to communicate remotely with other vilalges trying to overcome similar problems at the touch of your hands.
But no, better to hand out fish then give access to fishing instructions.
Knowledge is power.
Knowledge is power. That's bullshit. What use is knowledge when you are in no condition to put it to use. These people are not stupid.
LOL. So, your argument is those brown people can't do things like us civilized folk because they're too stupid? Racist prick. Fuck you.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!