Friday, April 3, 2015

Bill Gates 2030 Vision

I recently watched this video https://youtu.be/8RETFyDKcw0, Verge interviewed Bill Gates about his vision for 2030,  this is the man who predicted every home will have a PC, which turned out to be true, what is Mr.Gates vision fifteen years from would be..

Four key areas for improvement health care, farming, banking and education.


Key take aways:
  • This man is serious about his goals/visions, each sector has very specific goals, its very hard to come up with goals/vision
  • Health
    • Upstream: inventing new vaccines specifically for kids less than five years
    • Downstream: How do you get them out to kids around the worls
    • Goal: Currently one out of twenty kids dies before age of 5, this should increase to one in forty 
  • Farming
    • Better seeds with resistance to heat & low water, which hints GMO stuff but at least educating farmers about the benefits
    • Improved credit & loan systems for farmers
    • Increase world food productivity 
  • Education 
    • Emphasis on online learning 
    • Improve critical programming skills
    • Basics of reading & writing 
    • Tablet computing should have a sandbox to test new code  
  • Banking
    • In my view banking vision is radical and I see it coming soon, for small transactions banks are loosing money
    • Banking digital infrastructure should be revised to create a utility type service that lets you move money to pay someone else or switch from one bank to another. This calls in for a new regulatory infrastructure where money transfer system is licensed like phone numbers with banks (switching bank accounts should be like switching phone services)