1、尽管各大报刊的头版头条皆在报道负面消息，我们所生活的世界正日渐美好。健康状况有所改善、贫困比率有所下降、知识技能正在上升、人际交流日渐加深。在每一领域，科学技术不断进步，这一切都表明：你们这一代的生活将会远超我们。We will do our part to make this happen, not only because we love you, but also because we have a moral responsibility to all children in the next generation.我们将会尽己所能，实现这一目标，这不仅是因为我们爱你;更因为我们对下一
2、代的所有孩子有着道义上的责任。We believe all lives have equal value, and that includes the many more people who will live in future generations than live today. Our society has an obligation to invest now to improve the lives of all those coming into this world, not just those already here.在我们看来，所有的生命都有着共同的价值，其中包括
3、众多的子孙后代。我们现在这个社会有义务进行投资以改善世上所有生命的质量，而不仅包括提升我们这一代人的生活质量。But right now, we dont always collectively direct our resources at the biggest opportunities and problems your generation will face.然而现在，我们却并未总在齐心协力、整合资源以应对你们这一代将会面临的机遇与问题。Consider disease. Today we spend about 50 times more as a society treatin
4、g people who are sick than we invest in research so you wont get sick in the first place.譬如疾病问题。如今，我们用于社会医疗救治的资金是医学研究方面投资的五十倍，因此你们未来将不会受到疾病困扰。Medicine has only been a real science for less than 100 years, and weve already seen complete cures for some diseases and good progress for others. As technol
5、ogy accelerates, we have a real shot at preventing, curing or managing all or most of the rest in the next 100 years.医学作为一门真正的科学出现尚不到100年，我们已经完全治愈了一些疾病且在其他疾病的攻克方面进展良好。随着科技进步的加速，在未来100年，我们定能成功预防、治疗或控制全部或至少大部分的疾病。Today, most people die from five things - heart disease, cancer, stroke, neurodegenerativ
6、e and infectious diseases - and we can make faster progress on these and other problems.今天，大多数人丧生于五种疾病：心脏病、癌症、中风、神经变性疾病和传染性疾病。在攻克这些疾病和其他问题方面，我们定能取得更快的进展。Once we recognize that your generation and your childrens generation may not have to suffer from disease, we collectively have a responsibility to
7、tilt our investments a bit more towards the future to make this reality. Your mother and I want to do our part.一旦我们意识到我们能够有所作为，以使你们这一代和你们的下一代免受疾病之苦，我们愿共同担负责任，提升我们面向未来的投资，使之成为现实。我和你妈妈希望能尽己所能。Curing disease will take time. Over short periods of five or ten years, it may not seem like were making much
8、of a difference. But over the long term, seeds planted now will grow, and one day, you or your children will see what we can only imagine: a world without suffering from disease.治愈疾病需要时间。历经五年抑或是十年这样的短暂时光，其可能看似不能产生实质性变化。但是，从长远来看，我们现在播种的种子将会茁壮成长，终有一天，你或你的孩子会看到一幅我们这代人只能想象的景象：世界免受疾病困扰。There are so many
9、opportunities just like this. If society focuses more of its energy on these great challenges, we will leave your generation a much better world.诸如这样的机会，还有很多。如果社会能在应对这些重大挑战方面付出更多，我们将为你们这一代人留下一个更加美好的世界。Our hopes for your generation focus on two ideas: advancing human potential and promoting equality.
10、我们对你们这代期许有两点：提升人类潜能，促进平等。Advancing human potential is about pushing the boundaries on how great a human life can be.推进人类潜能，指的是关于改善人类生活的障碍。Can you learn and experience 100 times more than we do today?Can our generation cure disease so you live much longer and healthier lives?Can we connect the world
11、so you have access to every idea, person and opportunity?Can we harness more clean energy so you can invent things we cant conceive of today while protecting the environment?Can we cultivate entrepreneurship so you can build any business and solve any challenge to grow peace and prosperity?Promoting
12、 equality is about making sure everyone has access to these opportunities - regardless of the nation, families or circumstances they are born into.促进平等是确保每个人都有机会获得这些机会-无论出生于哪个国家、何种家庭亦或是怎么的环境里。Our society must do this not only for justice or charity, but for the greatness of human progress.Today we a
13、re robbed of the potential so many have to offer. The only way to achieve our full potential is to channel the talents, ideas and contributions of every person in the world.Can our generation eliminate poverty and hunger?Can we provide everyone with basic healthcare?Can we build inclusive and welcom
14、ing communities?Can we nurture peaceful and understanding relationships between people of all nations?Can we truly empower everyone - women, children, underrepresented minorities, immigrants and the unconnected?If our generation makes the right investments, the answer to each of these questions can
15、be yes - and hopefully within your lifetime.This mission - advancing human potential and promoting equality - will require a new approach for all working towards these goals.促进人类的发展潜力和促进平的这项任务，需要新视角得以实现此类目标。We must make long term investments over 25, 50 or even 100 years. The greatest challenges req
16、uire very long time horizons and cannot be solved by short term thinking.We must engage directly with the people we serve. We cant empower people if we dont understand the needs and desires of their communities.We must build technology to make change. Many institutions invest money in these challeng
17、es, but most progress comes from productivity gains through innovation.We must participate in policy and advocacy to shape debates. Many institutions are unwilling to do this, but progress must be supported by movements to be sustainable.We must back the strongest and most independent leaders in eac
18、h field. Partnering with experts is more effective for the mission than trying to lead efforts ourselves.We must take risks today to learn lessons for tomorrow. Were early in our learning and many things we try wont work, but well listen and learn and keep improving.Our experience with personalized
19、learning, internet access, and community education and health has shaped our philosophy.我们在个性化学习、互联网接入、社区教育与健康的体验中形成了我们的理念。Our generation grew up in classrooms where we all learned the same things at the same pace regardless of our interests or needs.Your generation will set goals for what you want
20、to become - like an engineer, health worker, writer or community leader. Youll have technology that understands how you learn best and where you need to focus. Youll advance quickly in subjects that interest you most, and get as much help as you need in your most challenging areas. Youll explore top
21、ics that arent even offered in schools today. Your teachers will also have better tools and data to help you achieve your goals.Even better, students around the world will be able to use personalized learning tools over the internet, even if they dont live near good schools. Of course it will take m
22、ore than technology to give everyone a fair start in life, but personalized learning can be one scalable way to give all children a better education and more equal opportunity.Were starting to build this technology now, and the results are already promising. Not only do students perform better on te
23、sts, but they gain the skills and confidence to learn anything they want. And this journey is just beginning. The technology and teaching will rapidly improve every year youre in school.Your mother and I have both taught students and weve seen what it takes to make this work. It will take working wi
24、th the strongest leaders in education to help schools around the world adopt personalized learning. It will take engaging with communities, which is why were starting in our San Francisco Bay Area community. It will take building new technology and trying new ideas. And it will take making mistakes
25、and learning many lessons before achieving these goals.But once we understand the world we can create for your generation, we have a responsibility as a society to focus our investments on the future to make this reality.Together, we can do this. And when we do, personalized learning will not only h
26、elp students in good schools, it will help provide more equal opportunity to anyone with an internet connection. Many of the greatest opportunities for your generation will come from giving everyone access to the internet.你们这代人的很多绝佳机会都来自于每个人都能上网。People often think of the internet as just for enterta
27、inment or communication. But for the majority of people in the world, the internet can be a lifeline.It provides education if you dont live near a good school. It provides health information on how to avoid diseases or raise healthy children if you dont live near a doctor. It provides financial serv
28、ices if you dont live near a bank. It provides access to jobs and opportunities if you dont live in a good economy.The internet is so important that for every 10 people who gain internet access, about one person is lifted out of poverty and about one new job is created.Yet still more than half of th
29、e worlds population - more than 4 billion people - dont have access to the internet.If our generation connects them, we can lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. We can also help hundreds of millions of children get an education and save millions of lives by helping people avoid diseas
30、e.This is another long term effort that can be advanced by technology and partnership. It will take inventing new technology to make the internet more affordable and bring access to unconnected areas. It will take partnering with governments, non-profits and companies. It will take engaging with communities to understand what they need. Good people will have different views on the best path forward, and we will try many efforts before we succeed.But together we can succeed and create a mor
