Bill Gates Makes Bold Bet About Poverty, And Tech Plays A Big Role

Technological advances will drastically change life in the developing world by 2030.

Bill Gates is betting on it.

In the 2015 Gates Annual Letter, published by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the philanthropist predicts that “the lives of people in poor countries will improve faster in the next 15 years than at any other time in history.” And according to Gates, innovation will play a vital role.

“We want to break the cycle of poverty,” Melinda Gates said. “And if we all work together, we bet it can be done.”

Click here to read the 2015 Gates Annual Letter.

The Huffington Post