March 10th 2024: 3 Men Who Changed the World

INNOVATORS EXTRAORDINAIRE
Join Mike Lawrie this Sunday for his Perspective(s) about three men who have impacted his life and the lives of countless others with their innovative thinking, compassionate drive and enduring legacy. 

First Reading

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic- being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago. - Elon Musk

(business man and investor. He is the founder, chairman, CEO and CTO of SpaceX. CEO, product architect and former chairman of Tesla and president of the Musk Foundation. He is one of the wealthiest people in the world with an estimated net worth of $210 billion.

Second Reading

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second rule is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. - Bill Gates

(an American business man, investor, philanthropist and writer, best known for being the co-founder of the software giant Microsoft and prominent pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 80s. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is one the largest philanthropic foundations in the world and part of the global alliance to eradicate polio.)