A new three-part documentary on Bill Gates is worth watching.
Each segment is a little under one hour. Each segment covers a different set of issues.
Each segment is divided into three parts: (1) how Gates started Microsoft and turned it into a gigantic corporation; (2) one major project that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is presently funding; (3) interviews with Gates and people who have worked with Gates. Each segment holds together quite well artistically. None of them is boring.
The first one talks about a major project the Gates Foundation is investing in: providing clean water for urban areas of the Third World. If you watch this, you will once again be grateful that you live in the West. What you see will appall you. The research is concentrated on two aspects of the problem: toilet design and municipal water treatment facilities. They seem to have made a major breakthrough in the second area.
The second segment talks about another area that we take for granted: a world without polio. It turns out that the West is a world without polio, but the rest of the world isn't. It shows what the Gates Foundation has done to dramatically reduce the number of cases of polio.
The third segment discusses another incredible breakthrough that the Gates Foundation's money has made: the development of a radical new design for nuclear power reactors that dramatically eliminates the threat of a radioactive disaster. It also uses spent fuel that is piling up around America to generate electrical power.
You also get some indication in these segments about just how smart Gates is. He reads 15 or 16 books at a time, and we're talking in about a week or less. He retains an enormous percentage of what he has read, and then he is able to cross-pollinate his thinking. It really is amazing.
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