【正文】 away with it women set up systems to encourage used financial services that helped some of them start businesses and get out of sex was all done by people society considered the lowliest of the for me isn39。s 39。s why they39。here39。re entering phase three with a new TB drug patients who respond, instead of a 50 percent cure rate after 18 months for $2,000, we could get an 8090 percent cure rate after six months for under $39。re sure as hell going to bring you puters.” Before I went to Soweto, I thought I understood the world39。t, then technology would make inequality ran counter to our core belief: Technology should benefit we worked to close the digital made it a priority at Microsoft, and Melinda and I made it an early priority at our foundation – donating personal puters to public libraries to make sure everyone had digital divide was a focus of mine in 1997 when I took my first trip to South went there on business, so I spent most of my time in meetings in downtown stayed in the home of one of the richest families in South had only been three years since the election of Nelson Mandela marked the end of I sat down for dinner with my hosts, they used a bell to call the dinner, the men and women separated, and the men smoked thought, “Good thing I read Jane Austen, or I wouldn39。s especially gratifying for is rapidly being the favorite university for members of our it39。s long been a favorite university for Microsoft and our formula has been to get the smartest, most creative people working on the most important turns out that a disproportionate number of those people are at now, we have more than 30 foundation research projects underway with we want to learn more about the immune system to help cure the worst diseases, we work with we want to understand the changing landscape of higher education in the United States so that more lowine students get college degrees, we work with is where genius is a flexibility of mind here – an openness to change, an eagerness for what39。t have known what was going on.” The next day I went to Soweto – the poor township southwest of Johannesburg that had been a center of the antiapartheid was a short distance from the city into the township, but the entry was sudden, jarring, and passed into a world pletely unlike the one I came visit to Soweto became an early lesson in how na239。s problems, but I was blind to the most important was so taken aback by what I saw that I had to ask myself, “Do I still believe that innovation can solve the world39。s better by a factor of a is often dismissed as false there is also false 39。s who I met.” But this call was said: “Melinda, I39。d gone into were trying to make enough money to feed their were so low in the eyes of society that they could be raped and robbed and beaten by anybody – even by police – and nobody to them about their lives was so moving to what I remember most is how much they wanted to touch me and be was as if physical contact somehow proved their I was leaving, we took a photo of all of us with our arms linked that day, I spent some time in a home for the walked into a large hall and saw rows and rows of cot was attended except for one far off in the corner that no one was going near, so I walked over patient was a woman who seemed to be in her remember her had these huge, brown, sorrowful was emaciated, on the verge of intestines weren39。s not your 39。t a passive expectation that things will get better。s right? The people who say innovation will create new possibilities and make the world better? …or… The people who see a trend toward inequality and a decline in opportunity and don39。t address the problems that affect so many of our fellow human beings, then our optimism needs more empathy channelled our optimism, we would see the poverty and the disease and the poor schools, we would answer with our innovations, and we would surprise the the next generation, you Stanford graduates will lead a new wave of innovation and apply it to your problems will you decide to solve? If your world is wide, you can create the future we all your world is narrow, you may create the future the pessimists started learning in Soweto that if we39。s kids whose parents shirked their responsibilities, that we39。t turn away from it。When we want to understand the changing landscape of higher education in the United States, so that more lowine students get college degrees, we work with ,幫助更多低收入家庭的學生獲得大學學位時，我們找到斯坦福一同合作。我平時用的眼睛其實也沒有多大不同。But on our journey, our optimism ，這份樂觀也隨之深化。That ran counter to our core 。I stayed in the home of one of the richest families of South 。It was a short distance from the city into the township, but the entry was sudden, jarring and ，但進入索韋托后，我立刻感受到了強烈的視覺沖擊。The people there lived in corrugated tin shacks, with on electricity, no water, no ，沒有電沒有水 沒有廁所。There’s major decisions ahead about whether technology will leave the developing world ，為了不讓發(fā)展中國家在技術(shù)上落后顯然還有很多重大決定要做。On a later trip to South Africa, I paid a visit to a hospital for patients with MDRTB, multidrug resistant tuberculosis, a disease with a cure rate of under 59%.在之后一次去南非的過程中，我造訪了一家治療MDRTB病人的醫(yī)院，MDRTB也就是多耐藥肺結(jié)核，這種疾病的治愈率低于50%。She was later diagnosed with 。但錯誤的絕望同樣存在。And I knew what he was going through because when you see people with so little hope, it breaks your ，當你看到有人如此缺乏希望時，你會感到心碎。They were so low in the eyes of society that they could be raped and robbed and beaten by anyone, even the police, and nobody ，但卻沒人關(guān)心。The patient who was in this room was a woman in her I remember her 。When I arrived at her cot, I suddenly felt pletely and totally ，我感到的是完全的無助。It’s going to be ’s not your ，這不是你的錯。She was nothing more than skin over bones and I took her up on the roof top and I found one of those plastic chairs that blows over in the light put her there and sat her down, and put a blanket over her legs and she sat there facing to the west, watching the ，我將她攙扶到屋頂，找了一張被人遺忘的在微風中的塑料椅子，讓她坐在椅子上，用毛毯蓋上她的雙腿