Street February 10, 2019
Jon Markman

Governments and physicians around the globe struggle to deliver high quality healthcare at a reasonable price. But fresh medical technology innovators are coming, and there’s one in particular worth looking at.

Bill Gates is really smart. Microsoft, the company he co-founded, developed software that still powers most of the world’s personal computers. He’s also really good at predicting the future.

That is the basis for a fascinating story published by Entrepreneur Magazine recently. Way back in 1999, when the internet was in its infancy, Gates predicted, among other things, smartphones, fintech and social media.

His prescience was uncanny. The opportunity for investors, I believe, is the one idea of Gates that fell short.

When the internet was nothing more than...

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