Biodiversity

• [New] A voice represented by British scientist Stephen Hawking and Microsoft founder Bill Gates is: If a machine develops sufficiently intelligent in a few years, it will eventually become a major concern for mankind.
• Whether Sidewalk Labs, Blockchains LLC, Bill Gates, and others' involved in the creation of Smart Cities will respect individual privacy remains to be seen.
• Bill Gates thinks nuclear weapons less threatening than AI.
• Bill Gates DOES support the effort to determine whether the use of geoengineering - specifically solar radiation management - could effectively and efficiently cool the planet and beneficially alter the global climate.
• Forbes is reporting that project SCoPEx - financially backed by Gates - is moving forward with solar engineering research into sun-dimming technology that could potentially reflect sunlight out of Earth's atmosphere, triggering a global cooling effect.
• Bill Gates wants to pepper the sky with aerosols to reflect sunlight out of the atmosphere and initiate global cooling - the risks are incommensurable and likely irreversible.
• Somewhat surprising, only around 40% agreed with the statement that Bill Gates was using vaccinations to implant micro chips so he could control people.
• Bill Gates took to the virtual stage to underscore that after falling for two decades, extreme poverty has risen by 7% during 2020, wiping out advances on ending hunger and poverty by 2030.
• Conspiracy theories are rife in Romania, ranging from disbelief that any pandemic exists to fictitious concerns (based on misconstrued comments by Microsoft founder, Bill Gates) that vaccines will enable tech companies to implant microchips or change people's DNA.
• Bill Gates, a co-founder of Microsoft and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has said he does not understand why coronavirus numbers have not been as high as predicted in Africa.
• In 2015 the WHO targeted a 90% reduction in malaria deaths by 2030, and Bill Gates said in 2016 that he thought global eradication would be possible by 2040.
• According to Gates, the reinvented toilets will not only save $233 billion dollars in costs linked to diseases, but also create an emerging business that by 2030 will generate $6 billion a year.
• Governments can bolster educational programs designed to train workers for the jobs that will most likely exist in the coming decades.
• In the next decade, a pathogen designed on a computer screen by terrorists could kill as many as 30 million people within a year.
• By 2030 two billion people who don't have a bank account today will be storing money and making payment with their mobile phones.
• 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.

Last updated: 28 February 2021