Imagine being the richest man in the world.
One evening you are there, in the darkness of your bedroom and say:
“Where can I find answers to some questions”?
“Where can I find the right information”?
Maybe you have big themes.
Energy. Violence in the world.
What do people die, etc. etc.
You have all these questions that blend in your head
and where do you go looking for information?
Turn on the television and say:
“I turn on the tg5, the tg1, I will find an answer”!
To say, not only Italian television, or newspapers.
Open the Corriere, Repubblica, there is the answer ?!
Really?! Really the richest man in the world
opens the newspaper and thinks of finding the answer there ?!
And come on !!!
In general, the media can not be the answer.
For definition. Because they are making news for a mass of people.
So they must be understandable,
the level of detail is always minimal,
there are a whole range of political, economic,
bla, bla, bla. The media are not the answer.
What makes the richest man in the world
to get your information?
It does a very simple thing: get the phone up,
he calls one of his 144 assistants and says:
“For tomorrow morning at 8:00 am I want the 3 greatest experts in the world of energy here”.
The assistant moves … in the morning at 8:00
brings him the 3 largest energy experts in the world.
He speaks to us and acquires information from the sources
primary, more up-to-date, better on that topic.
Now it is also clear to a child that
the information that has the richest man in the world
and the information we have is not the same.
And this means that his ability to
making decisions is completely different.
It can make much better decisions than our own
it has information that we tend not to have.
The good news though is that the richest man in the world
which is called Bill Gates, or anyway n. 1, 2, 3,
4, 5 on the list, always one of the top in the world
Uncle Bill who gave himself to philanthropy, really,
he keeps a nice list of books he reads
and declare what are its sources of information.
This data, just for reporting it, you should
send me gold doubloons at the front door!
Doubloons!
Because it is important?! Because this changes everything.
Next time someone talks about energy
I heard Grillo who on the stage the other day still said:
“renewables”, which is a beautiful concept,
but then go read Vaclav Smil and tell you:
“guys, but here renewables count 2.5%
of world energy needs “.
The energetic transitions that have mapped
in the last 100 years they are very long
and so they require you 15, 20, 30 years.
So you know that’s a good thing
but that does not arrive before 30 years.
Or hear about the great diseases.
What do people die of?
You’re going to read Chris Murray,
“Global Burden of Disease”,
database that maps the last 150 years
of diseases on the planet and in real time tells you:
“look: these are the main diseases,
these are the main countries, with a whole series of data “.
Database open to the public.
Or read the next article about the fact that
there is more and more violence in the world, because every day
the newspapers give you news of me ** to,
and then you say “wow, but here is a violence of the Madonna”.
You’re going to read Steven Pinker’s study
“Better Angels of Our Nature”
and you see, data in hand, that the level of violence
in the world it has gone down over the years.
Richard Dawkins always says:
“Bring me the data, let me see the evidence”.
The rest is just talk.
One evening you are there, in the darkness of your bedroom and say:
“Where can I find answers to some questions”?
“Where can I find the right information”?
Maybe you have big themes.
Energy. Violence in the world.
What do people die, etc. etc.
You have all these questions that blend in your head
and where do you go looking for information?
Turn on the television and say:
“I turn on the tg5, the tg1, I will find an answer”!
To say, not only Italian television, or newspapers.
Open the Corriere, Repubblica, there is the answer ?!
Really?! Really the richest man in the world
opens the newspaper and thinks of finding the answer there ?!
And come on !!!
In general, the media can not be the answer.
For definition. Because they are making news for a mass of people.
So they must be understandable,
the level of detail is always minimal,
there are a whole range of political, economic,
bla, bla, bla. The media are not the answer.
What makes the richest man in the world
to get your information?
It does a very simple thing: get the phone up,
he calls one of his 144 assistants and says:
“For tomorrow morning at 8:00 am I want the 3 greatest experts in the world of energy here”.
The assistant moves … in the morning at 8:00
brings him the 3 largest energy experts in the world.
He speaks to us and acquires information from the sources
primary, more up-to-date, better on that topic.
Now it is also clear to a child that
the information that has the richest man in the world
and the information we have is not the same.
And this means that his ability to
making decisions is completely different.
It can make much better decisions than our own
it has information that we tend not to have.
The good news though is that the richest man in the world
which is called Bill Gates, or anyway n. 1, 2, 3,
4, 5 on the list, always one of the top in the world
Uncle Bill who gave himself to philanthropy, really,
he keeps a nice list of books he reads
and declare what are its sources of information.
This data, just for reporting it, you should
send me gold doubloons at the front door!
Doubloons!
Because it is important?! Because this changes everything.
Next time someone talks about energy
I heard Grillo who on the stage the other day still said:
“renewables”, which is a beautiful concept,
but then go read Vaclav Smil and tell you:
“guys, but here renewables count 2.5%
of world energy needs “.
The energetic transitions that have mapped
in the last 100 years they are very long
and so they require you 15, 20, 30 years.
So you know that’s a good thing
but that does not arrive before 30 years.
Or hear about the great diseases.
What do people die of?
You’re going to read Chris Murray,
“Global Burden of Disease”,
database that maps the last 150 years
of diseases on the planet and in real time tells you:
“look: these are the main diseases,
these are the main countries, with a whole series of data “.
Database open to the public.
Or read the next article about the fact that
there is more and more violence in the world, because every day
the newspapers give you news of me ** to,
and then you say “wow, but here is a violence of the Madonna”.
You’re going to read Steven Pinker’s study
“Better Angels of Our Nature”
and you see, data in hand, that the level of violence
in the world it has gone down over the years.
Richard Dawkins always says:
“Bring me the data, let me see the evidence”.
The rest is just talk.
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