Bill Gates: Tech can help U.S. beat recession
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Technology can pull the United States out of recession and help the world's ailing financial markets work better, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates told a high-level business summit at the company he co-founded.
"The drug companies will get back in high productivity mode. The software, IT revolution -- we're just at the start of that," said Gates at Microsoft's annual CEO Summit at the company's campus near Seattle.
"What we can do for education, communication, and what that looks like for the efficiencies of world markets, we are just at the beginning of that." Gates, who focuses on health and education issues at his Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation since giving up his day-to-day role at the world's largest software company last year, made the remarks on Wednesday at the private event, and they were made available publicly early Thursday.