Bill Gates’s Netflix series offers some dubious ideas about the future
Bill Gates thinks the ultra-rich should give away their wealth, as he does
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What’s Next? The future with Bill Gates
Netflix
When you want to imagine the future, who do you turn to? Friends and family? Science fiction? New Scientist? Now you can check in with Bill Gates, as the Microsoft co-founder and multibillionaire has worked with Netflix on What’s Next? The future with Bill Gates, in which he digs into make-or-break issues: artificial intelligence, misinformation, climate change, income inequality and disease.
The five-part series is uneven, though, and the worst instalment is perhaps the first, “What can…
