Bill Gates has been almost prophetic in his past predictions: his 1999 list was hauntingly accurate, foreseeing the advent of price comparison websites, smartphones, social media, and bots. Over the last few years, in interviews and annual letters, he has continued predicting: here are a selection of seven of his insights. 1. IN THE NEXT 15 YEARS, 33 MILLION PEOPLE COULD BE WIPED OUT IN LESS THAN A YEAR BY A PATHOGEN. At the Munich Security conference, Gates warned that "epidemiologists say a fast-moving airborne pathogen could kill more than 30 million people in less than a year." This could be due to mutation, accident, or terrorist intent. While this may seem outlandish, similar events have occurred before: the most obvious example is the Black Death, which killed almost a third of Europe, but more recently, in 1918, the Spanish Flu wiped out between 50 and 100 million people. 2. AFRICA WILL BECOME ENTIRELY SELF-SUFFICIENT IN TERMS OF FOOD PRODUCTION. He believes Africa will achieve