Video: Bill Gates, the TED Conference and a Box Full of Mosquitoes
by Peter Kafka
Posted on February 6, 2009 at 1:57 PM PT
What does it look like when one of the world’s richest men unleashes a box full of mosquitoes at a high-end conference? That’s what Microsoft (MSFT) founder Bill Gates did at the TED gathering earlier this week in a much-discussed stunt.
And now you can see for yourself:
Less exciting than it sounded, right? Here’s the thing: The mosquito bit is just the publicity-generating part of Gates’s talk, which is a thoughtful discussion of the problems the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is focused on, and the methods the nonprofit is using to try to solve them.
Modest title: “How I’m Trying To Change The World Now.”
You can see the complete speech here, and it will require 20 minutes of your time. But it’s free, and worthwhile.
The video comes from TED’s–that’s the Technology, Entertainment, Design conference, by the way–“TedTalks” page, which is slowly releasing clips of this week’s conference for those of who couldn’t make it to Long Beach this year.
I’m looking forward to seeing Elizabeth “Eat Pray Love” Gilbert’s presentation, which seemed to generate lots of buzz; you can see what various Twitterers (including our own Walt Mossberg) had to say about the conference here.
Comments
So Bill Gates released some bugs … seems both expected and normal to me.
Posted by Joe Allen at February 6th, 2009 at 5:53 pmIt was Jerry Seinfeld’s idea.
Posted by Jeff Stevens at February 8th, 2009 at 6:16 am