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Re:Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are tal... by philwelch on Monday August 08, 2022 @12:50PM (#32387923)
> Let's see a pilot program or something because I don't see all that much global-scale sharing of the technologies that can most improve life.

Yes, we do this. We did this with smallpox vaccination, we’re doing it with polio vaccines, HIV drugs, water purification systems, mobile phone network infrastructure, nets that are treated to protect from malaria-bearing mosquitoes. Sometimes people in rich countries go out of their way to invent technology that gives us no benefit but provides tremendous benefit to people in poorer countries, such as Norman Borlaug’s work. The global poor have become less poor to a much greater degree than the global rich have gotten richer.

Re:Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are tal... by giraffe_lady on Monday August 08, 2022 @02:54PM (#32389450)
And based on that outcome you feel optimistic here?
Re:Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are tal... by philwelch on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @11:26AM (#32413567)
I dare say we got very good outcomes with smallpox, polio, and HIV. Aside from that? https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/above-or-below-extreme-po...