Bill Gates Releases a Jar Full of Mosquitoes at Technology Conference
February 5th, 2009In other news: Bill Gates Funds Research Into ‘Flying Syringe’ Mosquitos to Deliver Vaccines.
Have a nice day.
Via: Cnet:
The Microsoft co-founder released the insects, which are notorious for spreading the deadly disease, during the Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) Conference in Long Beach, Calif.
“Not only poor people should experience this,” Gates told the audience before assuring them that the insects were malaria-free.
The insect release, which was first reported on Twitter by Facebook’s Dave Morin, was initially characterized in some reports as a swarm, but some in the audience reported seeing just a few.
TED curator Chris Anderson reportedly quipped that the video of the talk posted at TED.com will be headlined “Gates releases more bugs into the world.”
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced last year that it would provide $168.7 million to develop a vaccine for malaria.
“Flying Syringe Mosquitos,” not a bad idea, except that they’ll most likely be used as a vector for germ warfare rather than a vaccine delivery device. Consent issues, anyone?
Did you consent to the worm in your brain?
Wormwood leads the way don’t you know?
This bug thing has all been done before, we’re just entering deeper into the image mirror. A television within a television within a television.
Everything is now pointing to something that has already occurred – Marshall McLuhan told people they were living in the rear view mirror, he even told them that Sputnik was the ‘end’.What did he mean?
He stated that the age of radio was the age of virtual reality, yet we’re still talking about the future virtual reality. Who missed the boat?
Bill (pearly) Gates, who opens windows into peoples homes, and releases mosquitoes. He’s such a nice looking fellow, who would suspect a thing?
@Angelo,
Would you please state your point in a more overt manner (with links or citations)?
The out-there-woo-woo stuff might be more interesting if it was backed up by something besides… vague, rambling references to… what? I don’t get it.
Perhaps Angelo’s problems begin with the “wormwood leading the way?
I can already imagine the copy in the follow-up mailing, sent to each and every participant registered for the conference and Gates’ speech:
* What was the most important thing you learned at the symposium?
* Did you apply what you learned to your career?
* Have you experienced flu-like symptoms, unexplained hair loss or projectile vomiting?
Grew up in the shadow of Microsoft, a native of the area, a land with plenty of mosquitos of its own already. But what I’m wondering is where the ones Bill released came from; did he capture them himself at the compound on Lake Washington, or perhaps a friendly lab conveniently sent them over?
That would be real news worth knowing.
“And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.”