People will be surprised how blurry the constructs of society really are. Science really IS easier compared to politics. You don't need scientific advancements,

People will be surprised how blurry the constructs of society really are. Science really IS easier compared to politics. You don't need scientific advancements, but they're welcome too, and in the end they matter a lot. Marketing technological advances while aiming to help the poorest is I think the best way to show everybody how technologies can really help us, and not enslave us. Technologies must be designed with political goals too. You could naively say the iPhone is creating more political problems than it solves, and you'd be right. What Bill Gates does is creating incentives for research in the way the NASA did. And I think it's awesome. I guess that's what makes Bill Gates smarter in the end. You'll moan about antitrust laws and go watch JOBS, but today the people who make difference are businessmen who knows their basics of science. If you're unhappy about politics, don't tell Bill Gates, that's not what he does. His giant financial resources won't help solving political problems. Maybe he could pour money into making some media communications projects about science and studies just like Al Gore did, but again, I doubt Bill Gates really has the proper connections to do this.