What is more powerful missiles or microbes.Give reason to support your answer.
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Bill Gates, who on Friday night hung up his boots, stepping down from the board of Microsoft Technologies that he had founded in April of 1975 to channel his energies towards philanthropy, has long been talking about improving healthcare around the world - one of the many causes his foundation works for.
And today as the world battles the Covid-19 pandemic, a 2015-TED talk video of the 64-year-old has once again gone viral.
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The tech titan starts the video talking about how when he was a kid, the disaster he was worried about most was a nuclear war, saying, “we had a barrel in the basement filled with cans of food and water” just in case things got bad.
However, in the years since, Gates said that the greatest risk of a global catastrophe doesn't look like that anymore.
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“If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades it's highly likely to be a highly-infectious virus rather than a war. Not missiles, microbes.”
Gates said that part of the reason for this shift was because “we've invested highly in nuclear deterrents, but we've invested very little in a system to stop an epidemic.”
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