The founder of Microsoft: «Innovation, healthcare, education: the progress is phenomenal. I’m very optimistic that being born in a few decades will be better than being born now.”
Do you want to lead a happy existence? Do you want to live in a better world? Come back in (at least) twenty years. Word of Bill Gatesthe billionaire patron and founder of Microsoft, interspersing doomsday omens with a hopeful prediction: «I’m still very optimistic that being born in 20 years, 40 or 60 years will be much better compared to the past”.
The sobering picture
Bill Gates said so on Monday in an interview at a conference at the Lowy Institute, a study center in Sydney, Australia. That’s what Gates argues the future of mankind on earth will be better than in the past despite the challenges of climate change and future pandemics. He says everyone born in the coming decades will have greater opportunities than previous generations. quote i advances in health careincluding a reduction in infant mortality rates, e technological innovation in green energyEducation and healthcare as examples of how the world is getting better.
Gates also notes this the average lifespan of humans has improved significantly over the past three centuries and that human innovation over time has been a “phenomenal story».
The Wounded Generation
The world is full of scary trends, Gates notes global response to the COVID-19 pandemic which has proved insufficient, the failure of governments to achieve this declared goals for combating climate change and the growing political polarization in the United States. In October, a Gallup poll found that just 42 percent of Americans believe today’s youth will have “a better standard of living” than their parents. According to Gallup, That number is 18 percentage points lower than 2019 and represents the lowest level of optimism in about three decadesbased on similar surveys conducted in the past.
The look into the past
But pessimists miss the bigger picture, Gates says: “It’s easy to become more negative about some of these trends.” there “amount of innovation”, according to Gates, leads to a “general improvement in the human condition”. Which, although “still dramatic”, sees a better future: “We will cure obesity, we will cure cancer, we will eradicate poliosays Gates.
The glass half full
Gates also praises the potential of green energy technologiesaffordable and effective, and advances in technology that are enabling education and healthcare professionals to achieve greater reach around the world: “The level of IQ in the world who is educated, the quality of the tools we have to drive our innovation, be it Health, energy or education, these are wonderful things“, He says.
Three hundred years ago
If we look further back in history (“Let’s zoom in and say, ‘Okay, where were we 300 years ago?'”), Gates notes that one can’t help but think positively: the average human lifespan is improved dramatically in the last three centuries. In the 1700s, the average person died before reaching the age of 40. Life expectancy in the United States today is 76.1 years old. “It didn’t matter whether you were a king or a pauper – he explains – you suffered from enormous infant mortality and extremely low levels of literacy.” Thus, “the scale of human innovation over time is… phenomenal.”
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