Technology is "amazing," Bill Gates told the Financial Times in a recent interview, but it's not going to save the world.

Speaking with the Times' Richard Waters about what it's going to take the make the planet a better place, the Microsoft co-founder said that though improvements in technology may have their benefits, they won't meet the needs of the world's most desperate.

"I certainly love the IT thing," Gates said. "But when we want to improve lives, you've got to deal with more basic things like child survival, child nutrition."

"PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs,” he later added.

Gates' comments come just a few months after Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and a group of other tech moguls -- positioning Internet connectivity as a humanitarian concern -- promised to bring Internet access to the entire world.

"The Internet is an important foundation in improving the world," Zuckerberg told Wired in August of the plan.

When asked by the Financial Times whether Internet connectivity is more important than, say, finding a vaccination for malaria, Gates responded: "As a priority? It's a joke."

"If you think connectivity is the key thing, that’s great. I don’t,” he added.

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