Co-founder of Microsoft; chair of the Gates Foundation
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“with AI, over the next decade, that will become free, commonplace — great medical advice, great tutoring,”AIHealth
“In the next five years, this will change completely. You won’t have to use different apps for different tasks. You’ll simply tell your device, in everyday language, what you want to do.”AITechnology
“AIs will get to that ability, to be as good a tutor as any human ever could.”AI
“By the end of 2022 we should be basically completely back to normal”HealthEconomy
“I bet there’ll be some vaccines that will get out to lots of patients without the full regulatory review somewhere in the world.”Health
“for the rich world, we should largely be able to end this thing by the end of 2021, and for the world at large by the end of 2022.”HealthEconomy
“If things stay stable in the conflicted areas, humanity will see its last case of polio this year.”Health
“respiratory-spread pathogen would kill more than 30 million people in less than a year. And there is a reasonable probability of that taking place in the years ahead.”Health
“Within the next 15 years—and especially if young people get involved—I expect the world will discover a clean energy breakthrough that will save our planet and power our world.”EnergyClimate
“If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades, it's most likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war.”Health
“Guinea worm, an incredibly painful disease whose sufferers spend months incapacitated while worms that can be several feet long burst out of their legs, will also be gone soon, thanks in large part to the leadership of President Jimmy Carter and the Carter Center.”Health
“Almost all countries will include vaccines for diarrhea and pneumonia, two of the biggest killers of children, in their immunization programs.”Health
“By 2030, 2 billion people who don't have a bank account today will be storing money and making payments with their phones.”BankingTechnologyEconomy
“In 1990, one in 10 children in the world died before age 5. Today, it's one in 20. By 2030, that number will be one in 40.”Health
“By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world.”Economy
“Five years from now on the web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world. It will be better than any single university.”Technology
“I'm stunned how people aren't seeing that with TV, in five years from now, people will laugh at what we've had”Technology
“Two years from now, spam will be solved”Technology
“within five years I predict it will be the most popular form of PC sold in America”Technology
“Eventually we’ll also be able to speak to televisions, personal computers, or other information appliances.”Technology
“Wallet PCs with the right equipment will be able to tell you exactly where you are anyplace on the face of the earth.”Technology