Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates' physical
body might reside in the present, but his
brain lives in the future.
The billionaire philanthropist has made a
career out of predicting what will happen
in matters of computing, public health, and
the environment.
Clearly, the technology genius has turned
out to be even more of a visionary than anyone
could have realized decades ago. Bill Gates’
predictions have turned out to be eerily accurate,
although many of these ideas probably seemed
totally off the wall at the time.
He correctly predicted the rise of smartphones
and social media, and a wealth of evidence
suggests his latest predictions could be on
the right track as well.
According to Bill Gates The following predictions
are revealed!
AIRBORNE PATHOGEN COULD KILL MILLIONS
In February, Bill Gates remarked at a conference in
Munich, Germany that one of the biggest threats
to global health is an airborne pathogen deployed
by bio-terrorists. It could be a synthetic
smallpox virus or a super-flu that is far
deadlier than normal strains.
Rapid advances in genetic engineering have
opened the door for small terrorism groups
to tailor and easily turn biological viruses
into weapons.
Bill Gates also stated that developments in
genetic engineering were proceeding at a “mind-blowing
rate”.
Biological warfare ambitions once limited
to a handful of nation states are now open
to small groups with limited resources and
skills.
Mr Gates said the potential death toll from
a disease outbreak could be higher than other
threats such as climate change or nuclear
war.
Epidemiologists "say there is a reasonable
probability the world will experience such
an outbreak in the next 10-15 years," Gates noted.
In just a year, the right PATHOGEN could wipe
out 33 million people.
For this reason, Gates and his foundation
have made widespread vaccination one of their
top priorities around the world.
Whether naturally occurring, or deliberately
started, it is almost certain that a highly
lethal global pandemic will occur within our
lifetimes, he believes.
Getting ready for a global pandemic is every
bit as important as nuclear deterrence and
avoiding a climate catastrophe.
ROBOTS WILL TAKE YOUR JOB
According To Gates, Over the next 20 years,
warehouses and factories across the country
are poised to replace human workers with automated
robots. The resultant loss to the labor force
could be in the thousands, if not millions,
depending on which industries automate jobs
the most.
His vision for this future involves essentially
taxing the robots who perform this labor,
in order to preserve the income tax you'd
otherwise get from a human.
As automation threatens the existence of millions
of jobs across the US, some career paths
are more robot-proof than others. 
For example, Cashiers face a bleaker future,
with a 97% chance of being replaced. Roughly
6 million to 7.5 million retail jobs "likely
will be automated out of existence in the
coming years.
The World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs report
predicts that 5 million jobs will be lost
by 2020 as AI, robotics, nanotechnology and
other socio-economic factors replace the need
for human workers.
POLIO ERADICATED BY 2019
By last count in 2016, the world saw just
37 new cases of polio. That's down from more
than 400 in the late 1980s. Only a few hundred
cases remain around the world, and Gates is
hopeful the disease will become the second
disease, after smallpox, to disappear for
good.
The virus, which invades the nervous system
and can cause irreversible paralysis within
hours, spreads rapidly among children, especially
in unsanitary conditions in war-torn regions,
refugee camps and areas where healthcare is
limited.
Bill Gates stated that The global polio community
is now finalizing a detailed plan that he
believes should allow us to finish the job
of polio eradication within the next 2 years.
Pakistan and Afghanistan are the last two
countries where polio currently remains endemic.
Success would make polio only the second human
disease to be eradicated since smallpox was
banished in 1980.
AFRICA BECOMES SELF SUFFICIENT
In his 2015 Gates Annual Letter, Gates made
the prediction that Africa's agriculture
industry will increase productivity by 50%
by 2030, making the entire continent self-sufficient.
Currently, the continent imports roughly $50
billion worth of food each year, despite the
fact that 70% of residents in sub-Saharan
Africa are farmers.
Accordinng to the Multi-Billionaire, In the
next 15 years, however, innovations in farming
will erase these brutal ironies. "The world
has already developed better fertilizer and
crops that are more productive, nutritious,
and drought- and disease-resistant; with access
to these and other existing technologies,
African farmers could theoretically double
their yields."
An African agricultural revolution is within
reach, provided the continent can focus on
supporting small-scale farmers to help meet
national and regional demand for food.
SOLAR ENERGY WILL POWER THE ENTIRE WORLD BY
2030
One of Gates' more hopeful predictions came
in 2017 when he declared that wind, solar,
or some other renewable resource will power
the majority of the world within the next
13 years.
Many of the poor countries he visited had
no running water or electricity. At night
this meant they couldn't light or power their
homes, keep businesses open, or run vital
medical centers.
"If the world can find a source of cheap,
clean energy, it will do more than halt climate
change," he wrote. "It will transform the
lives of millions of the poorest families."
Of all the renewable energy sources we have
to choose from, solar power has by far the
most potential to supply all our energy needs
into the foreseeable future.
That’s because it’s practically infinite.
It comes from the Sun — the largest
power source in the solar system — and
the sun isn’t going anywhere for billions
of years.
Now we’re in the midst of a solar power
revolution that promises to change the world
in much the same way as computers have.
Our time on this planet is a finite resource.
But the choices we make now will determine
whether or not it is renewable.
GLOBAL POVERTY ELIMINATED BY 2035
In his 2014 Annual Letter, Gates boldly predicted that
continued levels of foreign aid could mean
there will be almost no more poor countries
by 2035. (His foundation has since expressed
concern over the Trump administration's foreign-aid
budget, but believes the math should still
work out.)
"Almost all countries will be what we now
call lower-middle income or richer," Gates
explained. "Countries will learn from their
most productive neighbors and benefit from
innovations like new vaccines, better seeds,
and the digital revolution."
In his 2015 newsletter, Bill Gates says: “The
lives of people in poor countries will improve
faster in the next 15 years than at any other
time in history.” And he places access to
banking services near the top of the list
for why this will be the case.
The push for environmental sustainability
has brought some 2.6 billion people access
to improved drinking water since 1990, meaning
that the target of halving the proportion
of people without access to improved sources
of water was achieved in 2010 – five years
ahead of schedule. However, 663 million are
still without improved drinking water.
let see what the future reveals
