{"id":21179,"date":"2025-01-30T09:01:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T10:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21179"},"modified":"2025-01-30T10:29:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T10:29:05","slug":"bill-gates-isnt-like-those-other-tech-billionaires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21179","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates Isn\u2019t Like Those Other Tech Billionaires"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The older he gets, the more Bill Gates<\/a> is surprised by what the world dishes up.<\/p>\n

Take billionaires. There are many now from the tech industry, quite a few with politics that skew forcefully right<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI always thought of Silicon Valley as being left of center,\u201d Mr. Gates said. \u201cThe fact that now there is a significant right-of-center group is a surprise to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Or take the evolution of technology in the decades since he began Microsoft and made it one of the world\u2019s most valuable companies.<\/p>\n

\u201cIncredible things happened because of sharing information on the internet,\u201d Mr. Gates said. That much he anticipated. But once social media companies like Facebook and Twitter came along, \u201cyou see ills that I have to say I did not predict.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Political divisiveness accelerated by technology? \u201cI didn\u2019t predict that would happen,\u201d he said. Technology being used as a weapon against the broader public interests? \u201cI didn\u2019t predict that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mr. Gates is a techno-optimist but he has limits, like cryptocurrency. Does it have any use?<\/p>\n

\u201cNone,\u201d he said. \u201cThere are people with high I.Q.s who have fooled themselves on that one.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The older he gets, the more Bill Gates is surprised by what the world dishes up.Take billionaires. There are many now from the tech industry, quite a few with politics that skew forcefully right.\u201cI always thought of Silicon Valley as being left of center,\u201d Mr. Gates said. \u201cThe fact that now there is a significant right-of-center group is a surprise to me.\u201dOr take the evolution of technology in the decades since he began Microsoft and made it one of the world\u2019s most valuable companies.\u201cIncredible things happened because of sharing information on the internet,\u201d Mr. Gates said. That much he anticipated. But once social media companies like Facebook and Twitter came along, \u201cyou see ills that I have to say I did not predict.\u201dPolitical divisiveness accelerated by technology? \u201cI didn\u2019t predict that would happen,\u201d he said. Technology being used as a weapon against the broader public interests? \u201cI didn\u2019t predict that,\u201d he said.Mr. Gates is a techno-optimist but he has limits, like cryptocurrency. Does it have any use?\u201cNone,\u201d he said. \u201cThere are people with high I.Q.s who have fooled themselves on that one.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21181,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21182,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21179\/revisions\/21182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}