Since the outbreak of the epidemic, Bill Gates’ 2015 speech on the prediction of infectious diseases has been repeatedly mentioned. The control of information and the ability to predict the future of these top leaders have once again refreshed our understanding. The tubing science blogger Veritasium found an opportunity to conduct an in-depth interview with Gates, asking him to predict and interpret this and “the next crisis of mankind”-the Internet.
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Gates believes that if disasters such as hurricanes and earthquakes are predictable in location and time, people are willing to invest resources in prevention. The occurrence of infectious diseases is completely random, and it is easy to receive no return after paying, so people are not willing to invest too much.
In order to deal with possible infectious diseases, humans should at least have the ability to detect nucleic acids millions of times a day, a more complete and rapid mRNA vaccine development process, and more medical funds. In this way, when the next infectious disease comes, even if it fails to prevent it from spreading across the world, it can still reduce the mortality rate to 1/10 of the new crown.
Compared with the next outbreak of infectious diseases, people will have to face a more complex and unpredictable problem in the near future: the Internet.
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