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Last evening 60 Minutes had a rerun but it is not one that I had seen before. It was called Bill Gates 2.0. In it he speaks of many things including his friendly rivalry with Steve Jobs. The part with him talking about Jobs is quite moving. In one part Gates father was with him and he gave him all the credit for telling him to give his money away and he credits his wife for being the driving force behind the foundation which employs 1,100 people. And as many may know Warren Buffet has entrusted him with his fortune.

One of the first things Gates wants to do is to provide the polio vaccine, malaria vaccine, and other vaccines to children and adults n Africa and elsewhere in the world. One of the challenges that was faced was that the vaccine has to be kept cool and where there is no electric for refrigeration and where ice would melt within no time. A new "super thermos" which used the same technology that protects spacecraft from extreme heat was developed. With only a a single batch of ice, it can keep vaccines cold for 50 days. He is also working on a new typle of toilet. A competition was held and the top 5 designs were picked. This inventing a better toilet will also be used in third world countries were drinking water is foul and rivers filled with waste.

As many know Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard and while one could see many bookshelves filled with books, what was most striking were the shelves filled with DVDs of science series. He also carries around a L.L. Beane tote bag filled with books. He makes notes in them as he reads them and then uploads his comments etc on-line and others can read them. Another segment focused on his owning the DaVinci notebooks which are all under glass. He paid $30.8 million for a 500-year-old manuscript.

He said the document stands for one man's unquenchable thirst for knowledge — something that continuously inspires him. "It's an inspiration, that one person off on their own with no positive feedback, that he kept pushing himself . . . found knowledge in itself to be a beautiful thing," Gates tells Charlie Rose.

For Bill Gates, technology is still the solution. He shows Charlie Rose some inventions he's working on to help heal the world.

You probably know Bill Gates as the founder of Microsoft, the hard-driving tech executive whose software fueled the personal computer revolution.

You might also know him as the long-time richest man in the world who left Microsoft five years ago so he could work fulltime, giving his money away.

As we first reported last spring, we had the chance to witness "Bill Gates 2.0," the man you don't know. He is driven as much as anyone we have ever met to make the world a better place.

Gates told us why he thinks inventions are the key to success, and just what he intends to accomplish with his time, intellect and $67 billion fortune, starting with his plans to knock out some of the world's deadliest diseases.

Transcript and Video

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57595805/bill-gates-2.0/