Bill Gates weighs in

Global thinking on global issues is the theme of The Gates Notes, a new website set up by Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates. Bank on nuclear energy and tap into solar chemical – converting energy from sunlight into, say, hydrogen or some other liquid fuel, was one of his strong message to policy makers.

The site hosts everything, from the software tycoon’s heavy-topic musings to the books he has read. It stems from the interest following his 2009 Annual Letter, written a year after he left Microsoft, he said.

Significance: For all the Microsoft bashing because of its fat licensing gains, its founder is a visionary no less. Certainly, he has no shortage of fans – some 250,000 fans on Twitter, which he used to announce what is, essentially, his online diary.

Interestingly, students of physics can follow a series of lectures which he took years tracking down the rights to – spending some of his personal fortune along the way – and put up for free at the Microsoft Research website. The lectures on concepts such as gravity are by noted scientist Richard Feynman given in 1964.

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