The New York Times:
Lying on a church pew with his arm over his head, 6-year-old Gordon Andindagaye whimpered a bit — in fear, not pain — as Dr. William A. Cherniak slowly swept a small ultrasound scanner up and down his chest.
Dr. Cherniak and Rodgers Ssekawoko Muhumuza, the Ugandan clinical officer he was training, stared at the iPhone into which the scanner was plugged, watching Gordon’s lung expand and contract.
Gordon had a persistent cough and swollen lymph nodes, and looked tired and unwell. As other boys ran around outside, kicking a soccer ball made of rags and twine, he clung weakly to his mother. The scan on the iPhone’s screen suggested his lungs had fluid in them.
What a great story about phones that aren’t just phones.
Hell of a device. But I wish the Gates Foundation was as interested in addressing the political causes of poverty and disease as they are the symptoms.
Trying to tackle the politics can often mean you’ll simply get barred from participating in various countries. That’s a very tricky battle to fight correctly. The US federal government is also not at the moment in a great place to assist.
We take for granted that we have computers in our pockets that are more powerful than any computing device we had before ~2010. It’s amazing to see positive applications, not just Facebook and misinformation. 🙂
No argument there. I suppose I’d feel better about Gates if he had a less gilded-age stance on the tax structure for high-net-worth individuals like himself.
Too many of his solutions are band-aids for problems that require systemic attention.
Right, in the US there are probably other, better investments, and unfortunately Buffett is very much the exception in this class when it comes to this.
But that’s a much larger discussion for another forum.