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1/ What a year. If you’re anything like me, you’re taking stock of your work and your life, and wondering where all the time went. Here are a few of my thoughts as 2018 wraps up. b-gat.es/2BSfgYC
Just over a year ago, I made my first investment in Alzheimer’s research. I’m hopeful that we can make a lot of progress in the coming years.
Almost a decade ago, I predicted that the world would soon be polio free. But we had more polio cases in 2018 than in 2017. Even so, I remain optimistic that we could eradicate polio soon.
This year @btenergy, the clean-energy investment fund I’m involved with, announced the first companies we’re putting money into.
Some people think we have all the clean-energy sources we need to stop climate change. But we don’t. As I wrote earlier this year, the world needs to be working on lots of solutions to stop climate change. b-gat.es/2QZ7qXM
I had hoped that hitting the 100th anniversary of the Spanish flu would spark a lot of discussion about whether we’re ready for the next global epidemic. Unfortunately, it didn’t, and we still are not ready.
The good news is that there has been progress toward a vaccine that would protect you from every possible strain of the flu. But the world still needs to develop a global system for responding to epidemics.
Gene editing might be the most important public debate we’re not having right now. Read up on it whenever you have a chance. Even better, read @DrSidMukherjee’s “The Gene.” b-gat.es/2QXYFgz
Although I’ve never been one for New Year’s resolutions, I’m making one for 2019: I’m committing to learn and think more about the balance between privacy and security, as well as the use of technology in education.
In the meantime, Melinda and I are working on our next Annual Letter, which we’re going to send out in February.
I hope you have a happy and healthy start to 2019.
