Bill Gates should give, not work

Bill Gates would do the world and everyone in it a big, big favor if he would drop the technological development and focus exclusively on philanthropy. (“Gates says farewell to CES,” Jan. 7)

The coming technologies he promises, many of which will “react as people do, with ‘natural user interfaces’ that respond to speech and touch,” all mean that consumers will continually have to buy new hardware, new programs and related products.

I, for one, would like a decade free of the pressure to annually upgrade to a new and more complicated phone and a faster computer. It is exhausting.

Nothing in my life is so urgent that I need to ask a smart phone to locate a movie for me and buy tickets. Good grief.

Enough already.

Ann B. Hoover

Santa Monica