Comments on: News Alert: Bill Gates is officially redeemed from presentation purgatory

By: Gold-Coin

Gold-Coin — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 04:16:00 +0000

Mister Bill as always continues to surprise with the abilities. At its financial capacity and to ingenious thinking it is possible to deduce all mankind on a new standard of living.

By: NnpctO

NnpctO — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 17:00:17 +0000

There was no also a day that mister Bill Gates didn’t surprise mankind! In a lucid mind light ideas.

Bill and without that has made a lot of useful and good. God grant, that Bill lived long and continued us to please with new decisions and opening!

By: Brian Pitts

Brian Pitts — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 03:08:30 +0000

Anyone know who made the slides? I think Duarte would have done a better job though :)

By: Janet Bornemann

Janet Bornemann — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:16:59 +0000

Looks like Bill Gates took a page out of Steve Jobs book with this presentation. I saw an earlier comparison of the two ceo’s styles on TED.. Goes to show you that some of the smartest brains in the world need a lot of help communicating some of the complex ideas that live in their heads.

By: Dick Knisely

Dick Knisely — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 15:32:46 +0000

My thoughts echo Steve’s comment: the biggest difference is passion. Yes, the slides were hugely improved but with energy and enthusiasm a speaker can get past mediocre slides but the best slides in the world are lifeless without the passion.

By: Chris Thomas.

Chris Thomas. — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:21:19 +0000

Yes, the world needs to clean-up it’s act, we’ve known this for how long?
Mr. Gates comes along, a product of the mess created by manufacturing, and now says we need to clean it up.
He’s just touting the Al Gore line, the made-up story of C02 gas emissions. The climate scientists are not united on the cause of global weather change, and the Earth changes. Global C02 story is NOT conclusive and no where near that. This is because they can’t prove it to be true, because it NOT true. Climategate proves the dissention and suggests highly that the data isn’t there, and it’s been recently admitted that original data on climate change has been “lost”. It’s a coverup for something larger, something way bigger.
Chris Thomas.

By: Leslie

Leslie — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:37:08 +0000

No surprise that he has come to this. But also about time.

By: Amit Agarwal

Amit Agarwal — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:14:30 +0000

The video of Bill Gates’ TED talk is now available online – http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates.html

By: Gerhard Patrick Randel

Gerhard Patrick Randel — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:28:37 +0000

One good slide show that he probably had someone else make for him and he’s redeemed for all of the anti-trust violations and illegal practices used by Microsoft the world over to throttle any meaningful competition to what is generally regarded as a mediocre to ok product? It just goes to show how desperate we’ve all become for a real hero with real clout. I want actions. I’m done with words. He should put his billions where his mouth is, and show us real leadership on the issue of climate change. Then I might be more inclined to label him “redeemed” for all of his past shady business practices beginning with Microsoft’s role in the demise of DRDOS.

By: jlowelld

jlowelld — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:55:11 +0000

The problem that seems endemic to all the well-known supporters of ‘zero’ emissions is that of their own basic paradigm: an anthropomorphic world view, which resolves all issues through ‘technological solutions’. At this point in energy-technology-development that solution, given the goal of ‘zero-emissions’ (and zero retreat from market-economy unlimited growth…) translates to: nuclear power–which, by any reasonable measure equals the ‘highway to hell.’

The reality that is generally not faced by the wealthy supporters of ‘zero emissions’ is that once an integrate, ‘closed-system’, becomes totally unbalanced, it will collapse (ex: bacterial over-population of petri dish). To approximate a balanced-system, humans would need to cease all ‘technological’ activity and pursue something on the order of permaculture food production; this is a reality few people have touched on–and for several reasons. First of all, it won’t happen except as a last resort–greed and cultural habits have a lot of momentum. Secondly, it implies a much diminished population, one where centralized control of labor will no longer be possible or even imaginable. In other words, the ‘imperial control’ paradigm will not be possible–a circumstance that is as abhorrent, as it is unimaginable, to the Bill Gates and Al Gores of the world.