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I'm going to talk today about energy and
climate. And that might seem a bit surprising
because my full-time work at the foundation
is
mostly about vaccines and seeds,about the
things that we need to invent and deliver to
help
the poorest two billion live better lives.
But energy and climate are extremely
important
to
these
people,in
fact,more important than anyone else on the planet.
The
climate getting worse means that many years
that many years,their crops won't grow . There
will be too much rain,not enough rain,things
will
change in ways that their fragile environment
simply can't support. And that leads to
starvation,it leads to uncertainty,it leads to
unrest. So, the price of energy is very
important
to them. In fact, if you could pick just one
thing
to lower th- e price of, to reduce poverty, by
Bill Gates:Teachers need real feedback
TED Talks Education · 10:24 · Filmed May 2013
Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis
player, a gymnast or a bridge player. (Laughter)
My bridge coach, Sharon Osberg, says there are more pictures of the back of her head
than anyone else's in the world. (Laughter) Sorry, Sharon. Here you go.
We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve. Unfortunately,
there's one group of people who get almost no systematic feedback to help them do their
jobs better, and these people have one of the most important jobs in the world. I'm talking
about teachers. When Melinda and I learned how little useful feedback most teachers get,
we were blown away. Until recently, over 98 percent of teachers just got one word of
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的人服务。当初和保罗创立微软之时，我们的目标是把计算机和软件的力量普及到普通大众，这便是我们当时的说法。在早期的一本书上的封面有一个上扬的拳头，他们称之为《计算机解放》。At that
time, only big businesses could buy puters.We wanted to offer
the same power to regular people and democratize puting。在那个时候，只有大企业才能购置计算机。我们想让这种计算机设备普及到社会大众并让计算机民主化。By the 1990s, we saw how
profoundly personal puters could empower people, but that
success created a new dilemma.If rich kids got puters and
poor kids didn t, then technology would make inequality
worse.That ran counter to our core belief。在上个世纪90年代，我们目睹了个人电脑对人们的巨大效用，但是这种成功同时造成了新的困局。如果富人的孩子拥有计算机而穷人的孩子却不能时，这种科技会加剧不平等。而这与我们的核心理念相抵触。Technology
should benefit everyone。科技应当惠及万众。So we worked to
close the digital divide. I 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
Melinda Gates: This is in Africa, our very first trip, the
first time either of us had ever been to Africa, in the
fall of 1993. We were already engaged to be married.
We married a few months later, and this was the trip
where we really went to see the animals and to see
the savanna. It was incredible. Bill had never taken
that much time off from work. But what really
touched us, actually, were the people, and the
extreme poverty. We started asking ourselves
questions. Does it have to be like this?
梅琳达·盖茨：这是我们第一次旅行，在非洲拍的。我们俩都是第一次去非洲，那是1993年的秋天，我们已经订婚。几月后，我们结婚了，我们想通过这次旅行看看野生动物和热带草原。真是太美了。比尔和我从来没有放过这么长的假。但是真正让我们深受触动的是那儿的人，那儿的贫穷。我们开始扪心自问，一切只能是这样吗？
Bill Gates: Well, we decided that we'd pick two
causes, whatever the biggest inequity was globally,
and there we looked at children dying, children not
having enough nutrition to ever develop, and
