LiveSide asks Bill Gates a question (how cool is that?)

LiveSide blog with an interview with Bill Gates...below are a few key items as relates to health care from the script..visit the site to download and read the entire document...good points about tablets and their use in health care here too! He also talks about his daughter's school and how they got rid of books and all use tablet pcs...imagine too how convenient using the new technology in a car can be for a clinician who is mobile as well...and last but not least is his commitment to the Gates foundation and working to make the world a better place...BD

Just got the transcript of our hour with Bill Gates, so I wanted to get it up for you as soon as I could. Bill started out with a little preamble about the future of computing, and then it was on to the questions. By the luck of the seating arrangement.
BILL GATES: My daughter happens to go to a Tablet PC school, so she knows more about Tablet PC than I do. I get her homework, her graded homework every day, I see what she got wrong at dinner, I can know whether we have to discuss scientific notation or whatever it is, and she's just so much more -- for her it's so natural to use the pen and just be reading everything online. They got rid of the textbooks, and it's a phenomenal thing. And this year it's all based on OneNote where they use the collaborative synching of OneNote where they're updating their thing, and the teacher sees it. Anyway, that's a pretty phenomenal thing.
BILL GATES: They're shipping in all their new cars, including the Ford Focus, this thing that you take a phone, a Zune, an iPod in, it just recognizes that it's there, says, okay, what kind of device is it, and you can talk and do instant messages or it will annunciate the instant messages that are coming in to you.
BILL GATES: So, if you're, say, going to your doctor's office and they make you wait, there will be a tablet device sitting there. If you authenticate to that thing, phew, your state comes down, your homepage, your documents, your software rights, your music rights, it's going to be on that device. If you lose your phone, you just say to the cloud, hey, never authorize that unit again, but pick up a naked phone, authorize who you are, and, phew, all your stuff comes down onto the device.
BILL GATES: So, my ability to spend full time on that, go get the pharmaceutical companies more involved, get the best scientists more involved, back some risky approaches there, I may be more unique in terms of facilitating some of that than I am in software.