Bill Gates is doing what money should be doing. Using it to solve some serious problems - things that are wrong with the planet.
1. He used some of his cash to tackle malaria - vaccinations in poor nations and access to the medicines
2. Mosquito nets - provide cheap nets to impoverished areas to avoid the anopheles attack in the first place
3. Other important medicines and vaccines including AIDS medications - tackle the multiplier effect by hitting at the source of viral spread
4. Low cost computing resources with partenrships like Cisco etc in parts of the world where its hard to survive let alone go to school
5. Now with his latest effort to reinvent the TOILET. I think this takes the CAKE - literally might do that one day and convert it to fuel or some such.
Low cost 'To go' solutions for the billions still without access to clean water and a place to relieve themselves.
I don't particularly care whether Windows is a good software and what imagination went into the Office products or not but I do take interest in what comes out - personally - and how we deal with it.
Or rather Bill is putting his money where other people's rectum is and that is a good thing!
Our first foray into Central America. That elongated isthmus that forms the geographic boundary between two vast continents of North and South America. Specifically landing for NYE 2026 in San Jose, Costa Rica. Capital city for this region that does not have its own army, instead relying on its big bro the Estados Unidos to the north is a metropolis of approx. 500K people. Largely wilderness and with both a Pacific and Carribean/Atlantic coast the country is rich in bio diversity. In Spanish it means the rich coast so named by Columbus landing in early 16th century and being mesmerized by the local tribes sporting gold jewelry. Our stay included visiting the foothills of a large strato volcano called Arenal and enjoying the naturally heated thermal baths for a while. Lunching amidst lush forest and watching indigenous species of avian noise makers fly overhead. Toucans, some sort of pea hens, multiple song bird species completed the spectacle. Iguanas and a lonel...
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ReplyDeleteThank you Meghna for the link.
ReplyDelete'More "power" to Eram' and I am just not saying it. They are going to need it to keep the promise.
You are welcome. I hope the promise is kept.
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