Biodiversity

• With over $181 million in private funding from backers, including Richard Branson, Bill Gates, and meat industry giant Tyson Foods, many are expecting Memphis Meats to be the first company to successfully release a commercially-available cultured meat product.
• With the art market projected to grow over $900 billion by 2026, high-profile leaders like Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates have invested approximately $65 billion each year into their art collections.
• Five years ago, Bill Gates warned that the biggest potential killer the world faced was not war, but a pandemic.
• Some observers, such as Bill Gates, see the rise in automation as an opportunity to raise government revenue through a robot tax, while others such as Elon Musk reportedly claim that UBI will be necessary to confront society's inevitable technological dependency.
• Microsoft founder Bill Gates expects his foundation to work almost entirely on the coronavirus pandemic in the near future.
• In Phoenix, Arizona is the Belmont development, a partnership between billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft founder Bill Gates with local real estate investors, which will plan a 'smart city' designed around emerging technologies.
• Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates predicted in a TED talk in 2015: If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades, it is likely to be a highly infectious virus, rather than a war.
• Bill Gates has been warning about the risk of a widespread disease for years and his foundation pledged $100 million last month to fight the coronavirus outbreak.
• Bill Gates a few years ago said in 15 years time there will be nurses, there will be no doctors, because no one can out-think a computer.
• The commission, led by former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, World Bank chief executive Kristalina Georgieva and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, argues that it is an urgent moral obligation of richer countries to invest in adaptation measures that will benefit the world.
• Bill Gates' investment firm Cascade Investment has bought a stake in 24,800 acres outside of Phoenix, Arizona, which will become a new smart city.
• Bill Gates envisions that technology can help Africa achieve food self sufficiency by 2030 but also warns against job loss due to automation.
• Bill Gates warned that a fast-moving airborne pathogen could kill more than 30 million people in less than a year.
• Today, a Chinese manufacturer and a venture backed by Bill Gates will announce plans to commercialize a microscope that uses deep learning algorithms to automatically identify and count malaria parasites in a blood smear within 20 minutes.
• Some awakening calls on new global threats (namely, the warning of bio-terrorism by Bill Gates) and some disappointing news (like the admission by Thomas de Maiziere that there is no meaningful cooperation between European security organisations and the UN counter-terrorism body).
• Even Bill Gates is predicting a huge segment of the job market will just cease to exist within the next 10 to 15 years.
• Secretary Shultz said Ms. Holmes could be "the next Steve Jobs or Bill Gates.
• Bill Gates thinks tax structures will have to move away from taxing payroll.

Last updated: 04 October 2020