It is true.... I grew up in Korea until 4th grade and my textbook was thin as a modern smartphone today. Not only elementary but until high school its like that. They have books for 1st and 2nd semester separate. Its sort of like a college.
Aldous Huxley argued that teachers became obsolete when textbooks became widely available, he went to Oxford and only went to two lectures a week by his own account.
hey bill gates, you peice of shit: why not give hundreds of millions to the poor and hurting right here in america, instead of apefrican and other shit countries? You and your dad support 1098 which raises taxes for ALL americans, but why should you care because you have billions and billions. Why don't you give hundreds of millions to schools HERE in the U.S, instead of supporting a tax hike on the rest of us to pay it. Why does microsoft hire thousands from india to work there? Fuck you. Die..
@Wantthosedaysback Stick to select concepts. I know he was talking more down the lines of math and science but leftists will run with this concept for all forms of education.
@tubaboy71 hmm. interesting how you give in to political polarization . The physical textbook aren't going anywhere if its up to the left . They won't burn them . I assume the info is digitized and updated as needed .
Yes . its imperative to have static ,actual 'books' to look back at to see at least where we have come from, for better or worse. eh?
want an example? We are taught about civil rights but not how or why it is needed and how it is enforced...hell the way its taught anymore they flip the sides lol
Anyhow, people nowadays, spent a lot of time playing Online Games, doing Facebook etc. Emphasis on the asian textbooks, yeah... asian textbooks could be smaller in pages compare to western textbooks. However, asian textbooks are the best. It points out to a direct learning, not from some western textbooks that is full of blah blah blah and sh*t. LFMAO
And I reiterate, my priority is essentially that every child experience Shakespeare and Mozart, not that a bunch of greedy record producers and novel publishers can profiteer off the 1s and 0s they produced ages ago/
The fact of the matter (de facto reality) regardless is that content is digitized and it is stolen. Whether it is Xeroxed or scanned and uploaded to the internet or shared over private networks and FTPs, transferred on P2P file sharing systems or whatever else, it is happening, and in record numbers.
The reason for this is that distribution is the work of a child when information is digitized and that is precisely the reason that the traditional media and distribution channels must die.
We need text books or at least originals prints and reprints because once info goes digital then it can be altered etc etc. Its all a whole ball of wax but preserving our info is key.
I just don't trust these "Eugenics/Green" fanatics spearheading anything. Keep an eye on Gates everyone...suspect.
Read Bill Joy's "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us". Bill Joy was co-founder and Chief Scientist of Sun Microsystems. He was no mere corporate elite cheerleader like Gates. Or Nicholas Carr's "Is Google Making Us Stupid" or Camille Paglia on the effects of mindless Postmodernim's effects on education or a host of authors warning about absorption into the surveillance Panopticon, the end of books, etc., etc. People need to rethink their way back to Thought and break loose from the likes of Gates
@asjeot This nice sweet guy is a massive eugenicist. Ask the peoples of Africa where he pours his money and their blood culling populations. His father was head of Planned Parenthood. Baby-killing is the family ghouish business.
Bill Gates is trying to look out for the average Joe... I'm not sure this is such a good idea, and it would make the World a worse place for those of us who are well above average(at least in terms of income and/or education). I'm split on this situation. It could make the lives of many people much better, but the lives of people who already worked hard and got through the system will be ruined.
@Zubinen I think this further democratization of education will probably end up hurting 'the masses' further. Already, everyone has a Bachelor's degree, what's it worth? The elite will always find ways to stay elite- they're the only ones w/ the excess time and money to spend remaining at the top. The rest of us keep 'reaching for the stars' while waiting tables and pushing papers- hoping that 'better days' are just around the corner. They're not.
@Zubinen your perspective is scarcity driven and obsolete. how can anyone possibly fear having a greater population of educated people... it also appears that you are in favour of having a world with economic and social stratification.. take a look at the nations with the greatest socio-economic gaps and those with the shortest and also pay attention to the quality of life... the perspective you appear to be adhering to while popular and senselessly propagated is false and needs to die.
I particularly agree with Gates on this issue, and it's one of the most perfect topics for his foundation to attack. No one reasonably disagrees that a change needs to be made. We need state-of-the-art approaches to education designed by national institutions that understand the big picture. Locally, we need to figure out how to get motivated teachers in classrooms and give them autonomy to make decisions in the interests of the students.
Easier to update the online textbook, less paper/trees used, and kids dont have to drag around a huge millstone in their backpack (which is becoming a health issue for some children)-and perhaps more people can have access to school textbooks? As a stay at home mom, I would LOVE to hit some more knowledge to update my antiquated education. And, perhaps I can do this without having to buy textbooks at $100-$500 a pop? Nice...
@99minerkc what contributions do you mean? beeing the first to charge for software and sue for copyright issues? Inventing methods to force the market to sell your products? Buying out every company that could be a threat to them as soon as possible? Throwing out uncomplete software that needs 2 major patches to be usable? or maybe suing for patentviolation for "showing users information they might be interested in".
@liquidminds I mean donate BILLIONS of dollars to help with aids, starvation, etc, etc! In addition, he donate millions to Harvard! Not to mention that his software is used daily in the medical field to save people! YES, you can throw out negatives, BUT the fact is if he didn't forge the way with microsoft some other visionary would have! You're just a JEALOUS no lifer who never lived up to his parents expectations! lol
"Bill Gates pledges to leave his £30billion fortune to charity... rather than his children
By SOPHIE BORLAND
Last updated at 4:01 PM on 20th June 20)" Try doing some research before getting owned next time! Even if Gates stepped on other companies to get where he's at in order to help the poor, SO WHAT? He's a modern day ROBIN HOOD in the eyes of poor and suffering 3rd world Africans! NOW PISS OFF
Seems obvious what kind of "liquid" is controlling your "mind". Gates is the worlds largest philanthropist, what the **** have you ever done? Nitpicking twat.
@TheWhatever41 like giving away donations of windows-licences to african schools... for 1 year.. than they had to pay for them but weren't allowed by contract to use free alternatives... all saving valuable tax-money and bringing some income to microsoft.. everyone important earns and who needs free education anyway.. if it's free it can only suck right?.....
My textbooks cost hundreds every year. A large book alone can set you back 300 dollars that you may only use for a few semesters. You might get a portion of that money back however chances are by the time you wish to sell back your book it will be outdated. Its quite a trap they put you into.
I like the idea of reproducing information at zero cost.
That's what an electronic book is. Digitizing information into ones and zeroes and transmitting it over the internet costs virtually nothing.
The alternative is making publishing books a situation where you have to spend thousands to millions of dollars, meaning you have to find a financier who of course takes a portion of the profit, distribution chains, a whole shit ton of unnecessary cost that gets passed on to the consumer.
@Redfingers You seem to be ignoring the negative side affects that are much worse:p Once books are completely digitized, they will be downloaded illegally and hence authors will not make profit. This, and digitizing textbooks, will demotivate people to write and hence the production of information will inevitably diminish:P
@fcdog555 Oh yeah, and don't forget the diminish of libraries as well. Oh what a great improvement to digitize such a beautiful thing that should not be touched.
@fcdog555 The point that was made in the video was: information should be made free and everyone can access them, and evaluation programs should be the one students should be paying for to find out what they don't understand. Many universities are doing this already so I have no idea why highschools are not following.
Libraries are fine, but the most beautiful thing is that everyone be given an opportunity to publish their feelings and that all people, worldwide have access to the beauty of culture....The Oddyssey, A Clockwork Orange, and Mozart. Arithmetic, algebra, calculus. Biology, language.
This, to me, is a greater priority than your boner for hardbound textbooks. Seriously. Get over it already. A hard drive can store a million libraries. That is true wonder, true beauty.
@fcdog555 He's not saying to digitize great authors, he's talking about text books. You know, the boring text books that have the title, "Algebra 2" on the cover and its about 8 inches thick! Teachers continue to assign reading material by authors for English and you can't get much out of the author if its digitized, because you need to write essays on the topic.
@truvelocity I wasn't exactly reffering to just what he said. I was talking about in general. Haven't you noticed the new thing at book stores? The kindles? They are electronic books and are a huge disaster for authors..well at least will be.
@fcdog555 I noticed kindle. But, the subject on this video wasn't about that, so that's why you seem to be getting so many responses. Authors still get their residuals from kindle, but the actual book will never be obsolete.
@truvelocity Once again if people actually read what I say, they would realize I am not talking strictly about this video. And there are two main problems with kindle. 1) a kindle book costs about 10% of the actual book (but idk how much of a loss or gain this is so this one is not too important) and 2) you can download books illegally and thus the author gets no money for their book.
@fcdog555 You are wrong. The people who write books for money doesnt have morality, doesnt have forefront and are not champions. People continue to express their felling and ideas whatever there is paper, papyrus, electronic devices, or stones with AND without gaining any money. Science who is directed by interests and not blend inside society is bad thing. So, are you pray to the money? And about "illegally" please read society without schools Ivan Illich.
@kalimeraHellas You must be ignoring the people who write for a living... You know, fiction writers and the like. If fiction writers stopped getting paid, less and less people will write fiction. Have you not noticed how less people write newspapers cuz you can find the news online for free? Btw, listing one book for proof is erroneous; you are using one person hypothesis to support your own:p I can recommend you a book as well that suggests my point of view, but like I said, that is erroneous..
@fcdog555 I don't ignore anything. Please read the book and read the suggestion of the piratebay party of how this is possible (with writers to pay of course). I don't use a book to prove that books are wrong as you say. I used and IDEA (who is written inside a book) to prove that your way of thinking in GENERAL is erroneous. Is the same way of thinking that the copy of music tapes killing vinyl disc companies and music but they are prove wrong. You dont protect the authors, your protect money.
They are being digitized and downloaded illegally as we speak.
What you are supporting is a monopoly of distribution. The real profiteers are the distributors and the publishers. If you don't understand this, you don't understand anything.
The only reason we need publishers and capital investment at ALL is because capital is a matter of producing and distributing copies of books, a titanic venture justifying the existence of publishing companies.
@Redfingers Your obvious lack of understanding of my point and you insult truly shows your incompetence. Like I have stated before, I am not just talking about textbooks:p I am talking about fiction writers as well. They write to make a living...once their products become free on the internet, how will they make money and who is going to write books like fiction for free? I give it ten more years until the art of newspaper disappears:p Same will happen to fiction writers...
There is no dearth of original content on the internet.
The only institution that will die a horrible death due to digitizing content is the distribution system. The publishers will still exist, and they will still profiteer off of the producers, just with a significantly greater margin and potentially reduced sales.
See Steam. Digital distribution of videogames fully available for pirates to steal otherwise. And yet the business is successful and so are publishers that sell there.
@LitheInvestments - If a parent homeschool's effectively, online portion takes less time and frees the child up to do more things outside the home.
The down side: that schooling alternatives are still hard to come by, so getting children together to socialize is still tough....even if they are all still in the same school together, too. I agree that kids still spend too much time glued to a chair, whether at home or school and dont get enough hands on experience about the world in general.
Shall we replace teachers too and substitute Microsoft facilitators in their place? Look, Bill. Books mean privacy. I don't want you or anyone else to know or trace what I am reading OK? Now if I buy a book you can only trace the purchase. I may be buying it for my aunt Betty or for landfill. You don't know. And that's the way most of us like it. So please take your Brave New World and quest for endless profits disguised as altruism and do place it all where only a virtual "sun" shines, OK?
@orbis2009 Your textbook can be read by anyone who can obtain it. With a search warrant, a physical lock on your textbook can be broken. Your fifth amendment rights, however, prevent the police from compelling you to disclose your key to the cipher with which you've scrambled the textbook. With a good cipher, that's a lock that can't be picked within astronomical time scales, hypothetical quantum computing techniques aside.
@LokiClock Right. Tell the CIA or Blackwater all about your Fifth Amendment rights. That should give them a chuckle. And the speed with which my house can be accessed via a Search Warrant or phsyical lock as opposed to watched live-time electronically, you really want to make the comparison? Puhleeze! Look, for a timely look at Huxley don't get the novel get the essays Brave New World Revisited. Believe me the man was astonishingly prescient.
@orbis2009 If they violate your 5th amendment rights they still don't know the key unless you give it up. Your information is already being accessed, because you're leaking it like a hot battery in the water every time you use the internet without regarding best practices for privacy. Ignoring the technology merely keeps you from adapting to it.
@LokiClock Of course that is the case with the Internet. All the more reason to protect books, including textbooks. Because privacy if integral to books, but sure as hell not in electronic "books". Kindle, etc. Google doesn't ask permission to steal all the books in the world for their purposes, nor to locate and grid your very back yard via Street View...do not expect the Powers to respect your rights and keys.It is all total surveillance.
@LokiClock Ad hominem, bud, is a poor substitute for facts and thought, but is usually where it ends---the "herd of independents minds" eh? fawning consumers....leaping to servitude
@AtheistKharm why does everyone assume this is about microsoft? bill gates doesn't even hardly even interacts with that company anymore, he's busy saving African children from malaria
@REANIMATION980 It's sad how SO many people I know think this guy is evil because he's rich. He is such a remarkable man who has helped out the world SO much.
@4everkeim it's like when he buys rights to the feynman lectures and freely distributes them online and everyone calls him a monster for "buying rights" over such an amazing person as Feynman. hehe
@REANIMATION980 Just a primitive strike against people that would say I'm a fan boy. Like I said hes right.. and I'm aware of the bill and melinda gates foundation..
@MrAmmo Oh shit, Mr. Ammo's about to blow a few off. You didn't know Bill Gates was a socialist? He's an atheist too. Also, he and Warren Buffett, another atheist, convinced 40 of the US' wealthiest people to pledge to give away most of their money to charity.
@MrAmmo Gates is a very altruistic person. Dispite his making billions he gives many hundreds of millions to people who need it. His foundation is the most efficient foundation of its kind.
american math text book is 3 times bigger then a asian text book......bill is ganster
espnchris 1 month ago
It is true.... I grew up in Korea until 4th grade and my textbook was thin as a modern smartphone today. Not only elementary but until high school its like that. They have books for 1st and 2nd semester separate. Its sort of like a college.
blo0magic 11 months ago 2
mister gates please help!
ss620110 1 year ago
I know Bill gates is spewing bull*** right there.
SgtThom 1 year ago
I now Bill Gates is Bull**** right here.
SgtThom 1 year ago
Aldous Huxley argued that teachers became obsolete when textbooks became widely available, he went to Oxford and only went to two lectures a week by his own account.
Dissidentsdissent 1 year ago
hey bill gates, you peice of shit: why not give hundreds of millions to the poor and hurting right here in america, instead of apefrican and other shit countries? You and your dad support 1098 which raises taxes for ALL americans, but why should you care because you have billions and billions. Why don't you give hundreds of millions to schools HERE in the U.S, instead of supporting a tax hike on the rest of us to pay it. Why does microsoft hire thousands from india to work there? Fuck you. Die..
PornStar650Biker2012 1 year ago
Gee bill sounds like you want people to ignore history and the truth iside of it.
tubaboy71 1 year ago
@tubaboy71 how so?
Wantthosedaysback 1 year ago
@Wantthosedaysback Stick to select concepts. I know he was talking more down the lines of math and science but leftists will run with this concept for all forms of education.
tubaboy71 1 year ago
@tubaboy71 hmm. interesting how you give in to political polarization . The physical textbook aren't going anywhere if its up to the left . They won't burn them . I assume the info is digitized and updated as needed .
Yes . its imperative to have static ,actual 'books' to look back at to see at least where we have come from, for better or worse. eh?
Wantthosedaysback 1 year ago
@Wantthosedaysback very political and it is a fact.
tubaboy71 1 year ago
@tubaboy71 how can kids get away from that and just Learn ?
Wantthosedaysback 1 year ago 2
@Wantthosedaysback With actual history show both sides
tubaboy71 1 year ago
@tubaboy71 "both " meaning there are only 2 sides ? Where do you suggest tuba ?
Wantthosedaysback 1 year ago
@Wantthosedaysback where do i suggest?
want an example? We are taught about civil rights but not how or why it is needed and how it is enforced...hell the way its taught anymore they flip the sides lol
tubaboy71 1 year ago
@tubaboy71 sorry .. I meant "what do you suggest tuba?"
Yep , folks who have been through civil strife have a whole other view compared to kids who read about it . I know.
Do you somehow suggest a more neutral take ? It would seem that anything that can be spun ,will be spun .eh?
Wantthosedaysback 1 year ago
@Wantthosedaysback burn books from howard zinn?
tubaboy71 1 year ago
@tubaboy71 why though?
Wantthosedaysback 1 year ago 2
@Wantthosedaysback LOL you think books written with a communistic point of view by a true closet communist is a good idea?
tubaboy71 1 year ago
@tubaboy71 There are much worse ideas that deserve to be learned by those interested . Don't think I'm insecure or spiteful enough to burn books .
Wantthosedaysback 1 year ago
Anyhow, people nowadays, spent a lot of time playing Online Games, doing Facebook etc. Emphasis on the asian textbooks, yeah... asian textbooks could be smaller in pages compare to western textbooks. However, asian textbooks are the best. It points out to a direct learning, not from some western textbooks that is full of blah blah blah and sh*t. LFMAO
migguelboom 1 year ago
And I reiterate, my priority is essentially that every child experience Shakespeare and Mozart, not that a bunch of greedy record producers and novel publishers can profiteer off the 1s and 0s they produced ages ago/
Redfingers 1 year ago
The fact of the matter (de facto reality) regardless is that content is digitized and it is stolen. Whether it is Xeroxed or scanned and uploaded to the internet or shared over private networks and FTPs, transferred on P2P file sharing systems or whatever else, it is happening, and in record numbers.
The reason for this is that distribution is the work of a child when information is digitized and that is precisely the reason that the traditional media and distribution channels must die.
Redfingers 1 year ago
"Designed by committee with an incentive to change them..." Gee Bill, sounds like some crappy operating system.
GBS990 1 year ago
Bill rocks he is one of my favorite nerds. I wanna be like him, lol.
alanoasiss 1 year ago
what is wrong with bill's hair??
OutlinedDragon 1 year ago
@OutlinedDragon heäs getting old. no one lives forever
onukoll 1 year ago
We need text books or at least originals prints and reprints because once info goes digital then it can be altered etc etc. Its all a whole ball of wax but preserving our info is key.
I just don't trust these "Eugenics/Green" fanatics spearheading anything. Keep an eye on Gates everyone...suspect.
vjacq88 1 year ago
Read Bill Joy's "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us". Bill Joy was co-founder and Chief Scientist of Sun Microsystems. He was no mere corporate elite cheerleader like Gates. Or Nicholas Carr's "Is Google Making Us Stupid" or Camille Paglia on the effects of mindless Postmodernim's effects on education or a host of authors warning about absorption into the surveillance Panopticon, the end of books, etc., etc. People need to rethink their way back to Thought and break loose from the likes of Gates
orbis2009 1 year ago
one nice, smart guy....
asjeot 1 year ago
@asjeot This nice sweet guy is a massive eugenicist. Ask the peoples of Africa where he pours his money and their blood culling populations. His father was head of Planned Parenthood. Baby-killing is the family ghouish business.
orbis2009 1 year ago
cheers!
jkzupin 1 year ago
the only way we're gona advance is open source!
frvfilms 1 year ago
Bill Gates is trying to look out for the average Joe... I'm not sure this is such a good idea, and it would make the World a worse place for those of us who are well above average(at least in terms of income and/or education). I'm split on this situation. It could make the lives of many people much better, but the lives of people who already worked hard and got through the system will be ruined.
Zubinen 1 year ago
@Zubinen I think this further democratization of education will probably end up hurting 'the masses' further. Already, everyone has a Bachelor's degree, what's it worth? The elite will always find ways to stay elite- they're the only ones w/ the excess time and money to spend remaining at the top. The rest of us keep 'reaching for the stars' while waiting tables and pushing papers- hoping that 'better days' are just around the corner. They're not.
EuroInvicta 1 year ago
@Zubinen your perspective is scarcity driven and obsolete. how can anyone possibly fear having a greater population of educated people... it also appears that you are in favour of having a world with economic and social stratification.. take a look at the nations with the greatest socio-economic gaps and those with the shortest and also pay attention to the quality of life... the perspective you appear to be adhering to while popular and senselessly propagated is false and needs to die.
Th3Wab3 1 year ago
makes sense to me, textbook materials can be up to date and texas board of education cant rule the content.
sage0857 1 year ago 2
the most evil man in the world speaks
oldhacks 1 year ago
RIght on. I can't wait for the web to force public schools to reinvent themselves.
ananiasacts 1 year ago
I wish this was the end of text books. Coulda saved me a lot of money this year!
Morphixx 1 year ago
I particularly agree with Gates on this issue, and it's one of the most perfect topics for his foundation to attack. No one reasonably disagrees that a change needs to be made. We need state-of-the-art approaches to education designed by national institutions that understand the big picture. Locally, we need to figure out how to get motivated teachers in classrooms and give them autonomy to make decisions in the interests of the students.
zassounotsukushi 1 year ago 2
Great interview. GJ ForaTv!
etzel33 1 year ago 2
testing
MrCheese1229 1 year ago
testing
MrCheese1229 1 year ago
Easier to update the online textbook, less paper/trees used, and kids dont have to drag around a huge millstone in their backpack (which is becoming a health issue for some children)-and perhaps more people can have access to school textbooks? As a stay at home mom, I would LOVE to hit some more knowledge to update my antiquated education. And, perhaps I can do this without having to buy textbooks at $100-$500 a pop? Nice...
skeletonmom 1 year ago 2
this is great...
Packitlikesardines 1 year ago
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stagesix6 1 year ago
I always hate those government test that never tell you how bad you did. It's also just like you passed... for now.
dravarian26 1 year ago
Thats it Bill only for those within the selective breeding programs to come, isn't that right Bill?
WhereIsTheExit 1 year ago
omg.. he said iPad and didn't melt!!!!
liquidminds 1 year ago
I enjoy his talks
proceedapathy 1 year ago
When is a university going to give Gates an honorary doctorate for his many contributions to the world?
99minerkc 1 year ago
@99minerkc what contributions do you mean? beeing the first to charge for software and sue for copyright issues? Inventing methods to force the market to sell your products? Buying out every company that could be a threat to them as soon as possible? Throwing out uncomplete software that needs 2 major patches to be usable? or maybe suing for patentviolation for "showing users information they might be interested in".
liquidminds 1 year ago
@liquidminds I mean donate BILLIONS of dollars to help with aids, starvation, etc, etc! In addition, he donate millions to Harvard! Not to mention that his software is used daily in the medical field to save people! YES, you can throw out negatives, BUT the fact is if he didn't forge the way with microsoft some other visionary would have! You're just a JEALOUS no lifer who never lived up to his parents expectations! lol
99minerkc 1 year ago
"Bill Gates pledges to leave his £30billion fortune to charity... rather than his children
By SOPHIE BORLAND
Last updated at 4:01 PM on 20th June 20)" Try doing some research before getting owned next time! Even if Gates stepped on other companies to get where he's at in order to help the poor, SO WHAT? He's a modern day ROBIN HOOD in the eyes of poor and suffering 3rd world Africans! NOW PISS OFF
99minerkc 1 year ago 6
@99minerkc, Maybe he likes his kids.
ananiasacts 1 year ago
@ananiasacts whatever
99minerkc 1 year ago
@liquidminds
Seems obvious what kind of "liquid" is controlling your "mind". Gates is the worlds largest philanthropist, what the **** have you ever done? Nitpicking twat.
TheWhatever41 1 year ago
@TheWhatever41 like giving away donations of windows-licences to african schools... for 1 year.. than they had to pay for them but weren't allowed by contract to use free alternatives... all saving valuable tax-money and bringing some income to microsoft.. everyone important earns and who needs free education anyway.. if it's free it can only suck right?.....
liquidminds 1 year ago
Smart marketing. He knows what students need, and he wants to give it to them in his package.
Forkroute 1 year ago
I like Bill.
pierreaupeix 1 year ago 28
@pierreaupeix.... and I!!! LOVE!!!! THIS!!! COMPANY YEAAAAHHHH!!! (Check out "Steve Balmer goes mad" haha)
lanceawatt 1 year ago
In the time he made this video, Bill Gates made approximately $37k.
BlueRonin44 1 year ago
My textbooks cost hundreds every year. A large book alone can set you back 300 dollars that you may only use for a few semesters. You might get a portion of that money back however chances are by the time you wish to sell back your book it will be outdated. Its quite a trap they put you into.
xeadgbex 1 year ago
I don't like the idea of electronic books:p
fcdog555 1 year ago
@fcdog555
I like the idea of reproducing information at zero cost.
That's what an electronic book is. Digitizing information into ones and zeroes and transmitting it over the internet costs virtually nothing.
The alternative is making publishing books a situation where you have to spend thousands to millions of dollars, meaning you have to find a financier who of course takes a portion of the profit, distribution chains, a whole shit ton of unnecessary cost that gets passed on to the consumer.
Redfingers 1 year ago
@Redfingers You seem to be ignoring the negative side affects that are much worse:p Once books are completely digitized, they will be downloaded illegally and hence authors will not make profit. This, and digitizing textbooks, will demotivate people to write and hence the production of information will inevitably diminish:P
fcdog555 1 year ago
@fcdog555 Oh yeah, and don't forget the diminish of libraries as well. Oh what a great improvement to digitize such a beautiful thing that should not be touched.
fcdog555 1 year ago
@fcdog555 The point that was made in the video was: information should be made free and everyone can access them, and evaluation programs should be the one students should be paying for to find out what they don't understand. Many universities are doing this already so I have no idea why highschools are not following.
h2321 1 year ago
@h2321 Well once you make the material free, who do you think is going to be willing to write something they cannot make profit off of?
fcdog555 1 year ago
@fcdog555 - the music industry are using this model, new albums are given away free in deals with news and other industries.
tjmac7 1 year ago
@fcdog555
Libraries are fine, but the most beautiful thing is that everyone be given an opportunity to publish their feelings and that all people, worldwide have access to the beauty of culture....The Oddyssey, A Clockwork Orange, and Mozart. Arithmetic, algebra, calculus. Biology, language.
This, to me, is a greater priority than your boner for hardbound textbooks. Seriously. Get over it already. A hard drive can store a million libraries. That is true wonder, true beauty.
Redfingers 1 year ago
@fcdog555 He's not saying to digitize great authors, he's talking about text books. You know, the boring text books that have the title, "Algebra 2" on the cover and its about 8 inches thick! Teachers continue to assign reading material by authors for English and you can't get much out of the author if its digitized, because you need to write essays on the topic.
truvelocity 1 year ago
@truvelocity I wasn't exactly reffering to just what he said. I was talking about in general. Haven't you noticed the new thing at book stores? The kindles? They are electronic books and are a huge disaster for authors..well at least will be.
fcdog555 1 year ago
@fcdog555 I noticed kindle. But, the subject on this video wasn't about that, so that's why you seem to be getting so many responses. Authors still get their residuals from kindle, but the actual book will never be obsolete.
truvelocity 1 year ago
@truvelocity Once again if people actually read what I say, they would realize I am not talking strictly about this video. And there are two main problems with kindle. 1) a kindle book costs about 10% of the actual book (but idk how much of a loss or gain this is so this one is not too important) and 2) you can download books illegally and thus the author gets no money for their book.
fcdog555 1 year ago
@fcdog555 You are wrong. The people who write books for money doesnt have morality, doesnt have forefront and are not champions. People continue to express their felling and ideas whatever there is paper, papyrus, electronic devices, or stones with AND without gaining any money. Science who is directed by interests and not blend inside society is bad thing. So, are you pray to the money? And about "illegally" please read society without schools Ivan Illich.
kalimeraHellas 1 year ago
@kalimeraHellas You must be ignoring the people who write for a living... You know, fiction writers and the like. If fiction writers stopped getting paid, less and less people will write fiction. Have you not noticed how less people write newspapers cuz you can find the news online for free? Btw, listing one book for proof is erroneous; you are using one person hypothesis to support your own:p I can recommend you a book as well that suggests my point of view, but like I said, that is erroneous..
fcdog555 1 year ago
@fcdog555 I don't ignore anything. Please read the book and read the suggestion of the piratebay party of how this is possible (with writers to pay of course). I don't use a book to prove that books are wrong as you say. I used and IDEA (who is written inside a book) to prove that your way of thinking in GENERAL is erroneous. Is the same way of thinking that the copy of music tapes killing vinyl disc companies and music but they are prove wrong. You dont protect the authors, your protect money.
kalimeraHellas 1 year ago
@fcdog555
They are being digitized and downloaded illegally as we speak.
What you are supporting is a monopoly of distribution. The real profiteers are the distributors and the publishers. If you don't understand this, you don't understand anything.
The only reason we need publishers and capital investment at ALL is because capital is a matter of producing and distributing copies of books, a titanic venture justifying the existence of publishing companies.
Redfingers 1 year ago
@Redfingers Your obvious lack of understanding of my point and you insult truly shows your incompetence. Like I have stated before, I am not just talking about textbooks:p I am talking about fiction writers as well. They write to make a living...once their products become free on the internet, how will they make money and who is going to write books like fiction for free? I give it ten more years until the art of newspaper disappears:p Same will happen to fiction writers...
fcdog555 1 year ago
@fcdog555
There is no dearth of original content on the internet.
The only institution that will die a horrible death due to digitizing content is the distribution system. The publishers will still exist, and they will still profiteer off of the producers, just with a significantly greater margin and potentially reduced sales.
See Steam. Digital distribution of videogames fully available for pirates to steal otherwise. And yet the business is successful and so are publishers that sell there.
Redfingers 1 year ago
I like how Bill Gates doesn't talk about Microsoft. That's more like a side project for him.
GroogFish 1 year ago
What's screwed up is there is an online K-12 online program. How's that for shutting in and sheltering your kids to the brim?
LitheInvestments 1 year ago
@LitheInvestments You really think public school and college/university is the best way to socialize?
RaWBLooD 1 year ago
@LitheInvestments - If a parent homeschool's effectively, online portion takes less time and frees the child up to do more things outside the home.
The down side: that schooling alternatives are still hard to come by, so getting children together to socialize is still tough....even if they are all still in the same school together, too. I agree that kids still spend too much time glued to a chair, whether at home or school and dont get enough hands on experience about the world in general.
skeletonmom 1 year ago
Well said, highly relevant and accurate. I teach in Asia and frankly, this is the most intelligent thing I've ever heard Gates say.
Asiablue 1 year ago
wow, he's apple's biggest competitor and still he says good things about the iPad. even the apple people know the iPad is terrible
notToast 1 year ago
this man is selfless...wish we had 5 others like him
siasabora 1 year ago
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siasabora 1 year ago
Shall we replace teachers too and substitute Microsoft facilitators in their place? Look, Bill. Books mean privacy. I don't want you or anyone else to know or trace what I am reading OK? Now if I buy a book you can only trace the purchase. I may be buying it for my aunt Betty or for landfill. You don't know. And that's the way most of us like it. So please take your Brave New World and quest for endless profits disguised as altruism and do place it all where only a virtual "sun" shines, OK?
orbis2009 1 year ago
@orbis2009 Your textbook can be read by anyone who can obtain it. With a search warrant, a physical lock on your textbook can be broken. Your fifth amendment rights, however, prevent the police from compelling you to disclose your key to the cipher with which you've scrambled the textbook. With a good cipher, that's a lock that can't be picked within astronomical time scales, hypothetical quantum computing techniques aside.
LokiClock 1 year ago
@LokiClock Right. Tell the CIA or Blackwater all about your Fifth Amendment rights. That should give them a chuckle. And the speed with which my house can be accessed via a Search Warrant or phsyical lock as opposed to watched live-time electronically, you really want to make the comparison? Puhleeze! Look, for a timely look at Huxley don't get the novel get the essays Brave New World Revisited. Believe me the man was astonishingly prescient.
orbis2009 1 year ago
@orbis2009 If they violate your 5th amendment rights they still don't know the key unless you give it up. Your information is already being accessed, because you're leaking it like a hot battery in the water every time you use the internet without regarding best practices for privacy. Ignoring the technology merely keeps you from adapting to it.
LokiClock 1 year ago
@LokiClock Of course that is the case with the Internet. All the more reason to protect books, including textbooks. Because privacy if integral to books, but sure as hell not in electronic "books". Kindle, etc. Google doesn't ask permission to steal all the books in the world for their purposes, nor to locate and grid your very back yard via Street View...do not expect the Powers to respect your rights and keys.It is all total surveillance.
orbis2009 1 year ago
@orbis2009 This stuff's over your head, bud.
LokiClock 1 year ago
@LokiClock Ad hominem, bud, is a poor substitute for facts and thought, but is usually where it ends---the "herd of independents minds" eh? fawning consumers....leaping to servitude
orbis2009 1 year ago
@orbis2009 You are afraid of better education at a lower cost?
Fear is really leading you in the wrong direction.
RaWBLooD 1 year ago
we will have a paperless classroom some time after we have a paperless office... which is when hell freezes over :P
ndyt 1 year ago
end of textbook edited by texan's christian board ? I'm all for it !
moestietabarnak 1 year ago 3
Can't wait to watch the complete video.
sterlingman 1 year ago
I'm not a Microsoft fan, but hes right. Education in the US is fail.
AtheistKharm 1 year ago
@AtheistKharm why does everyone assume this is about microsoft? bill gates doesn't even hardly even interacts with that company anymore, he's busy saving African children from malaria
REANIMATION980 1 year ago
@REANIMATION980 It's sad how SO many people I know think this guy is evil because he's rich. He is such a remarkable man who has helped out the world SO much.
4everkeim 1 year ago 2
@4everkeim it's like when he buys rights to the feynman lectures and freely distributes them online and everyone calls him a monster for "buying rights" over such an amazing person as Feynman. hehe
notToast 1 year ago
@REANIMATION980 Just a primitive strike against people that would say I'm a fan boy. Like I said hes right.. and I'm aware of the bill and melinda gates foundation..
AtheistKharm 1 year ago
wee woo wee woo! NERD ALERT!
migkillertwo 1 year ago
@migkillertwo what
Yamakashi1 1 year ago
Yes and it will all work just perfectly, like Windows Vista!
skazhiprivet 1 year ago
Did Gates just say '...everybody should have free access to that..."?
MrAmmo 1 year ago
@MrAmmo Oh shit, Mr. Ammo's about to blow a few off. You didn't know Bill Gates was a socialist? He's an atheist too. Also, he and Warren Buffett, another atheist, convinced 40 of the US' wealthiest people to pledge to give away most of their money to charity.
AlienTruth 1 year ago
@MrAmmo Gates is a very altruistic person. Dispite his making billions he gives many hundreds of millions to people who need it. His foundation is the most efficient foundation of its kind.
Ragnaros12345 1 year ago
In a couple years, most work will be done on tablets and all textbooks will be eBooks?
Damn, this means my back wont break every time I go to class :D
Phelan666 1 year ago
love how he says "the asians" lol
cashstock 1 year ago
free online text books with updating!
xkeltoix 1 year ago
pc for the win
ThePsyber 1 year ago
sounds to me like free access to all classes will soon be possible online.
:)
iTellYouNoLie 1 year ago 18
@iTellYouNoLie Except religious ppl b/c they're afraid of science
601271 1 year ago
@iTellYouNoLie one can only hope
Th3Wab3 1 year ago
@iTellYouNoLie
On this site you can already watch lectures and some class material from Yale, Stanford, Harvard, The UC system, and MIT.
This is a wonderful thing.
polymath7 1 year ago
@polymath7 I know
:)
iTellYouNoLie 1 year ago
This has been flagged as spam show
@iTellYouNoLie it won't be free.
tremulent 1 year ago
Free online textbooks: Opposed by the guy in the video, without a doubt.
Tee hee, hooray for intellectual property and electronic copy-protection!
Go Microsoft! Go software companies! Go royalties! Right on!
Redfingers 1 year ago