迎接了女兒的到來，Facebook首席執行官紮克伯格與妻子在這個重要的時刻宣佈，他和妻子將捐出所持有99%Facebook股票，目前市值約450億美元，
尤其紮克伯格曾經表示，妻子懷上這個孩子並不容易。在想要孩子的兩年時間裡，普莉希拉經歷了三次流產。這封給女兒的信，淳樸真摯，通過這封信來宣佈重大的消息，意義深遠，為之動容。
以下是紮克伯格與妻子寫給女兒的信：女兒，給了我們一個理由反思你生活的那個世界
親愛的馬克西瑪，
我和你的母親無法用言語來描述你帶給我們的未來希望。你的新生活中充滿了希望，我們希望你能保持快樂和健康。你已經給了我們充分的理由，讓我們反思我們希望你生活的世界。像所有父母一樣，我們希望你在比我們今天生活得更好的世界中快樂成長。
但是新聞中往往更多提及負面的東西，實際上，從很多方面來看，我們的世界正變得越來越好。健康正獲得改善，貧困水準正在降低，知識正在增長，人們之間的聯繫變得更為緊密，每個領域的科技進步都意味著你的生活應該比我們今天好得多。
我們將努力實現這個目標，這不僅僅是因為我們愛你，也因為我們對所有下一代孩子擁有道義上的責任。我們認為所有生命都有平等的價值，包括人數超過今天的未來一代。我們的社會有義務投資於現在，以改善那些即將出生在這個世界上的所有人的生活，而不僅僅是已經降生在這個世界上的人的生活。
但是現在，我們並非總是將所有資源集中於你們這一代將面臨的最大機遇和問題上。
今天，大多數人死於五種疾病，分別是心臟病、癌症、中風、神經退行性疾病以及傳染病，我們可以在這些和其他疾病方面取得更快進展。一旦我們認定你們及你們的孩子一代不會在受某種疾病困擾，我們有責任向未來傾斜投資以便實現這個目標。我和你的母親想要盡我們的責任。
但是治癒疾病需要時間。在5到10年內，
我們希望你們這一代集中做兩件事：推進人類潛能和促進平等。其中，推進人類潛能就是竭力推動人類生活發展。你能學習和體驗超過我們今天100倍的東西嗎？我們這一代能治癒疾病，這樣你們就能夠更長壽、健康地生活嗎？我們能連通整個世界，這樣你們能夠獲得每個創意或機會嗎？我們能利用更多清潔能源，這樣你們能夠投資更多我們今天無法實現的事情同時保護好環境嗎？我們可以培養創業精神，
促進平等就是要確保每個人都能獲得這些機會，不分種族、家庭或出生環境。我們的社會必須這樣做，不僅因為出於正義或慈善，也為了偉大的人類進步。今天，我們被剝奪了潛力，因此許多人更需要機會。而唯一充分發揮我們潛力的方式就是為人才、創意以及世界上所有人的貢獻提供管道。我們能夠消除貧困和饑餓嗎？我們能為每個人提供基本健康保障嗎？我們能建立包容和樂於接受的社區嗎？我們能在所有國家之間培養和平與理解關係嗎？我們真的能讓每個人獲得平等權利嗎，
這兩大使命將需要新的方法來實現。我們必須進行25年、50年乃至100年的長期投資，最大挑戰要求有遠見卓識，它們無法用短期思維來解決。我們必須與我們為之服務的人們直接接觸。如果我們無法理解他們的需求與渴望，就無法幫助他們。我們必須建立足以改變現狀的技術。許多機構都在投資應對這些挑戰，但最有效地就是通過創新提高生產力。
我們必須參與政策與宣傳以便形成辯論。許多機構不願意這樣做，但要想取得進展必須獲得可持續發展的行動支持。我們必須支援每個領域最強大、最獨立的領導者。與更高效的專家合作，而非自己嘗試領導努力。我們今天必須冒險去學習明天的經驗，我們很早就開始學習，我們嘗試的很多事情都會失敗，但我們將會繼續學習，不斷保持進步。
我們的個性化學習體驗、互聯網接入、社區教育以及健康已經形成了我們的哲學。我們這一代在教室中長大，並在那裡以同樣的速度學習同樣的東西，無論我們是否感興趣或需要。你們這一代將可以為自己將來要做什麼而設定目標，比如工程師、醫生、作家或社區領導人。你們將擁有新的技術，可以幫助你更好地學習，幫你集中需要注意的地方。你將可以在自己最感興趣的學科取得快速進展，並在你最具挑戰性的領域獲得盡可能多的幫助。你可以探索今天學校並未開設的科目，你的老師也會有更好的工具和資料，説明你實現自己的目標。
更好的是，全世界的學生都將可以通過互聯網使用個性化學習工具，即使他們並未生活在好學校附近。當然，除了科技之外，每個人也需要擁有生活中更公平的起點，而個性化學習是一種可擴展的方式，可以給所有孩子更好的教育和更平等的機會。
我們正開始投資這種技術，結果顯示其非常有希望。在測試中，不僅學生的表現更好，他們還能獲得技能和信心，以學習任何他們想要瞭解的東西。這個旅程已經開始，你所在學校的技術和教學每年都會發生巨大改變。
我和你的母親都曾教過學生，我們已經看到這項工作需要什麼。它需要教育界最強大的領導者幫助全世界的學校普及個性化學習，它需要與社區交流，這就是我們為何以三藩市灣區作為起點的原因。它需要研發新的技術，嘗試新的創意。在實現這些目標前，它可能犯下錯誤，同時也吸取更多經驗。
一旦我們理解了我們能夠為你們這一代創造的世界，我們就有責任集中我們的投資于未來，實現這個目標。我們現在正一起努力。當我們開始時，個性化學習不僅可以幫助好學校的學生，它也會為那些聯網的人提供更多平等的機會。
對於你們這一代人來說，許多最好的機遇將來自人人都能聯網。人們經常將互聯網視為娛樂或交流工具。但是對於世界上大多數人來說，互聯網實際上可以成為生命線。如果你不住在好學校附近，它可以為你提供更好的教育；如果你不方便看醫生，它可以為你提供健康資訊，比如如何避免生病或撫養健康孩子；如果你附近沒有銀行，它可提供金融服務；如果你的經濟不太景氣，它可提供就業機會。
互聯網已經變得如此重要，每10個可聯網的人，其中就有1人通過互聯網擺脫貧困或找到新的工作機會，儘管世界上還有半數人（超過40億）沒有聯網。如果我們這一代能幫助他們聯網，我們可以幫助數億人擺脫貧困，還可以幫助數億孩子接受教育，並通過幫助人們避免生病挽救無數人的生命。
這是利用科技進步和合作的另一項長期努力。但這需要發明新技術，以令互聯網變得更廉價，並可連通無網地區。這需要與政府、非營利組織、公司合作，需要與社區接觸以便理解他們的需求。我們的共同努力定可取得成功，創造一個更加平等的世界。
科技無法自己解決問題，建造更好世界需要以建造更強、更健康社區為起點。孩子們學習時需要有最好的機會，而只有他們身體健康才能保證更好地學習。健康從很早就要開始，包括相親相愛的家庭、良好的營養以及安全穩定的環境。生活早期受過創傷的孩子經常出現不健康的思想和身體。研究顯示，大腦發育的變化可導致認知能力降低。
你的母親是一位醫生和教育者，她親眼見證了這些情況。如果你有不健康的童年，很難完全發揮潛力；如果你想知道自己是否有足夠食物或居所，或擔心受到虐待或犯罪，那也很難發揮潛力；如果你擔心自己因膚色將會進入監獄而不能上大學，或這你的家人因為你的身份地位可能被驅逐，或你因為宗教、性傾向成為暴力受害者，你也很難發揮全部潛力。
我們需要能夠瞭解這些問題的機構，並將他們聯合起來。這就是你的母親正在創建的新式學校的理念。通過與學校、健康中心、家長團體以及當地政府合作，通過確保所有孩子從小都能獲得良好的食物和照料，我們開始將這些無法獲得平等機會的人連通起來。只有那時，我們才能真正開始給每個人以平等機會。
要想完全實現這個目標，可能需要多年時間，但這是推進人類潛能與促進平等之間緊密相聯的另一個例證。如果我們要實現這兩個使命，我們必須首先建立包容性的健康社區。
對於你們這一代生活在更好世界中的人來說，你們將能夠比我們做的更多。今天，我和你的母親承諾，我們將竭盡全力幫助解決這些挑戰。我將繼續擔任Facebook CEO多年，但這些問題太重要，可能需要你們長大或我們老時才會開始產生效果。可是從年輕時開始，我們希望在生活中能看到更多變化。
當你作為紮克伯格與陳氏家族的下一代出生時，我們也開始了陳-紮克伯格倡議活動，加入世界各地許多致力於推進人類潛能和促進平等的人的行列。我們最初關注的領域將是個性化學習、治癒疾病、連通人們以及建立強大社區。在我們有生之年，我們會捐出持有的Facebook 99%股份幫助實現這些使命。我們知道，與那些開始應對這些問題的天才相比，我們的貢獻相當小，但我們將竭盡全力。
一旦我們適應新的家庭節奏，並從育兒假回歸後，我們將在未來數月分享更多細節。我們知道，你們對我們為何和如何做這些項目存在許多疑問。隨著我們為人父母，並翻開生活的新篇章，我們希望對每個人深表謝意。
我們之所以要做這些工作，只因為我們的背後有強大的全球社區支持。建立Facebook已經創造了為下一代改善世界的資源，Facebook社區的每個成員都在發揮作用。我們只有站在專家的肩頭才能取得進展，我們的導師、合作夥伴以及許多令人難以置信的人，都在為這些領域的建設做出貢獻。
我們只關注服務社區和這個使命，因為我們被相親相愛的家庭、真心相待的朋友以及和睦相處的同事所包圍。我們希望你的生活中也能擁有同樣深刻和鼓舞人心的親情和友情。麥克斯，我們愛你，並覺得為你和所有孩子打造一個更好世界是我們的責任。我們希望你的生活中充滿了同樣的愛與希望，我們甚至已經等不及將你帶入這樣的世界。
愛你的爸爸媽媽
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紮克伯格與妻子寫給女兒的信英文原版
Dear Max,
Your mother and I don't yet have the words to describe the hope you give us for the future. Your new life is full of promise, and we hope you will be happy and healthy so you can explore it fully. You've already given us a reason to reflect on the world we hope you live in.
Like all parents, we want you to grow up in a world better than ours today.While headlines often focus on what's wrong, in many ways the world is getting better. Health is improving. Poverty is shrinking. Knowledge is growing. People are connecting. Technological progress in every field means your life should be dramatically better than ours today.
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.
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.
But right now, we don't always collectively direct our resources at the biggest opportunities and problems your generation will face.
Consider disease. Today we spend about 50 times more as a society treating people who are sick than we invest in research so you won't get sick in the first place.
Medicine has only been a real science for less than 100 years, and we've already seen complete cures for some diseases and good progress for others. As technology accelerates, we have a real shot at preventing, curing or managing all or most of the rest in the next 100 years.
Today, most people die from five things -- heart disease, cancer, stroke, neurodegenerative and infectious diseases -- and we can make faster progress on these and other problems.
Once we recognize that your generation and your children's generation may not have to suffer from disease, we collectively have a responsibility to tilt our investments a bit more towards the future to make this reality. Your mother and I want to do our part.
Curing disease will take time. Over short periods of five or ten years, it may not seem like we're making much 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.
There are so many opportunities just like this. If society focuses more of its energy on these great challenges, we will leave your generation a much better world.
• • •
Our hopes for your generation focus on two ideas: advancing human potential and promoting equality.
Advancing human potential is about pushing the boundaries on how great a human life can be.
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 so you have access to every idea, person and opportunity?
Can we harness more clean energy so you can invent things we can't 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 equality is about making sure everyone has access to these opportunities -- regardless of the nation, families or circumstances they are born into.
Our society must do this not only for justice or charity, but for the greatness of human progress.
Today we are 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 welcoming 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 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.
We must make long term investments over 25, 50 or even 100 years. The greatest challenges require very long time horizons and cannot be solved by short term thinking.
We must engage directly with the people we serve. We can't empower people if we don't understand the needs and desires of their communities.
We must build technology to make change. Many institutions invest money in these challenges, 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 each 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. We're early in our learning and many things we try won't work, but we'll listen and learn and keep improving.
• • •
Our experience with personalized learning, internet access, and community education and health has shaped our philosophy.
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 to become -- like an engineer, health worker, writer or community leader. You'll have technology that understands how you learn best and where you need to focus. You'll advance quickly in subjects that interest you most, and get as much help as you need in your most challenging areas. You'll explore topics that aren't 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 don't live near good schools. Of course it will take more 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.
We're starting to build this technology now, and the results are already promising. Not only do students perform better on tests, 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 you're in school.
Your mother and I have both taught students and we've seen what it takes to make this work. It will take working with the strongest leaders in education to help schools around the world adopt personalized learning. It will take engaging with communities, which is why we're starting in our San Francisco Bay Area community. It will take building new technology and trying new ideas. And it will take making mistakes 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 help 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.
People often think of the internet as just for entertainment or communication. But for the majority of people in the world, the internet can be a lifeline.
It provides education if you don't live near a good school. It provides health information on how to avoid diseases or raise healthy children if you don't live near a doctor. It provides financial services if you don't live near a bank. It provides access to jobs and opportunities if you don't 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 the world's population -- more than 4 billion people -- don't 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 disease.
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 more equal world.
• • •
Technology can't solve problems by itself. Building a better world starts with building strong and healthy communities.
Children have the best opportunities when they can learn. And they learn best when they're healthy.
Health starts early -- with loving family, good nutrition and a safe, stable environment.
Children who face traumatic experiences early in life often develop less healthy minds and bodies. Studies show physical changes in brain development leading to lower cognitive ability.
Your mother is a doctor and educator, and she has seen this firsthand.
If you have an unhealthy childhood, it's difficult to reach your full potential.
If you have to wonder whether you'll have food or rent, or worry about abuse or crime, then it's difficult to reach your full potential.
If you fear you'll go to prison rather than college because of the color of your skin, or that your family will be deported because of your legal status, or that you may be a victim of violence because of your religion, sexual orientation or gender identity, then it's difficult to reach your full potential.
We need institutions that understand these issues are all connected. That's the philosophy of the new type of school your mother is building.
By partnering with schools, health centers, parent groups and local governments, and by ensuring all children are well fed and cared for starting young, we can start to treat these inequities as connected. Only then can we collectively start to give everyone an equal opportunity.
It will take many years to fully develop this model. But it's another example of how advancing human potential and promoting equality are tightly linked. If we want either, we must first build inclusive and healthy communities.
• • •
For your generation to live in a better world, there is so much more our generation can do.
Today your mother and I are committing to spend our lives doing our small part to help solve these challenges. I will continue to serve as Facebook's CEO for many, many years to come, but these issues are too important to wait until you or we are older to begin this work. By starting at a young age, we hope to see compounding benefits throughout our lives.
As you begin the next generation of the Chan Zuckerberg family, we also begin the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to join people across the world to advance human potential and promote equality for all children in the next generation. Our initial areas of focus will be personalized learning, curing disease, connecting people and building strong communities.
We will give 99% of our Facebook shares -- currently about $45 billion -- during our lives to advance this mission. We know this is a small contribution compared to all the resources and talents of those already working on these issues. But we want to do what we can, working alongside many others.
We'll share more details in the coming months once we settle into our new family rhythm and return from our maternity and paternity leaves. We understand you'll have many questions about why and how we're doing this.
As we become parents and enter this next chapter of our lives, we want to share our deep appreciation for everyone who makes this possible.
We can do this work only because we have a strong global community behind us. Building Facebook has created resources to improve the world for the next generation. Every member of the Facebook community is playing a part in this work.
We can make progress towards these opportunities only by standing on the shoulders of experts -- our mentors, partners and many incredible people whose contributions built these fields.
And we can only focus on serving this community and this mission because we are surrounded by loving family, supportive friends and amazing colleagues. We hope you will have such deep and inspiring relationships in your life too.
Max, we love you and feel a great responsibility to leave the world a better place for you and all children. We wish you a life filled with the same love, hope and joy you give us. We can't wait to see what you bring to this world.
Love,
Mom and Dad
與更高效的專家合作，而非自己嘗試領導努力。我們今天必須冒險去學習明天的經驗，我們很早就開始學習，我們嘗試的很多事情都會失敗，但我們將會繼續學習，不斷保持進步。
我們的個性化學習體驗、互聯網接入、社區教育以及健康已經形成了我們的哲學。我們這一代在教室中長大，並在那裡以同樣的速度學習同樣的東西，無論我們是否感興趣或需要。你們這一代將可以為自己將來要做什麼而設定目標，比如工程師、醫生、作家或社區領導人。你們將擁有新的技術，可以幫助你更好地學習，幫你集中需要注意的地方。你將可以在自己最感興趣的學科取得快速進展，並在你最具挑戰性的領域獲得盡可能多的幫助。你可以探索今天學校並未開設的科目，你的老師也會有更好的工具和資料，説明你實現自己的目標。
更好的是，全世界的學生都將可以通過互聯網使用個性化學習工具，即使他們並未生活在好學校附近。當然，除了科技之外，每個人也需要擁有生活中更公平的起點，而個性化學習是一種可擴展的方式，可以給所有孩子更好的教育和更平等的機會。
我們正開始投資這種技術，結果顯示其非常有希望。在測試中，不僅學生的表現更好，他們還能獲得技能和信心，以學習任何他們想要瞭解的東西。這個旅程已經開始，你所在學校的技術和教學每年都會發生巨大改變。
我和你的母親都曾教過學生，我們已經看到這項工作需要什麼。它需要教育界最強大的領導者幫助全世界的學校普及個性化學習，它需要與社區交流，這就是我們為何以三藩市灣區作為起點的原因。它需要研發新的技術，嘗試新的創意。在實現這些目標前，它可能犯下錯誤，同時也吸取更多經驗。
一旦我們理解了我們能夠為你們這一代創造的世界，我們就有責任集中我們的投資于未來，實現這個目標。我們現在正一起努力。當我們開始時，個性化學習不僅可以幫助好學校的學生，它也會為那些聯網的人提供更多平等的機會。
對於你們這一代人來說，許多最好的機遇將來自人人都能聯網。人們經常將互聯網視為娛樂或交流工具。但是對於世界上大多數人來說，互聯網實際上可以成為生命線。如果你不住在好學校附近，它可以為你提供更好的教育；如果你不方便看醫生，它可以為你提供健康資訊，比如如何避免生病或撫養健康孩子；如果你附近沒有銀行，它可提供金融服務；如果你的經濟不太景氣，它可提供就業機會。
互聯網已經變得如此重要，每10個可聯網的人，其中就有1人通過互聯網擺脫貧困或找到新的工作機會，儘管世界上還有半數人（超過40億）沒有聯網。如果我們這一代能幫助他們聯網，我們可以幫助數億人擺脫貧困，還可以幫助數億孩子接受教育，並通過幫助人們避免生病挽救無數人的生命。
這是利用科技進步和合作的另一項長期努力。但這需要發明新技術，以令互聯網變得更廉價，並可連通無網地區。這需要與政府、非營利組織、公司合作，需要與社區接觸以便理解他們的需求。我們的共同努力定可取得成功，創造一個更加平等的世界。
科技無法自己解決問題，建造更好世界需要以建造更強、更健康社區為起點。孩子們學習時需要有最好的機會，而只有他們身體健康才能保證更好地學習。健康從很早就要開始，包括相親相愛的家庭、良好的營養以及安全穩定的環境。生活早期受過創傷的孩子經常出現不健康的思想和身體。研究顯示，大腦發育的變化可導致認知能力降低。
你的母親是一位醫生和教育者，她親眼見證了這些情況。如果你有不健康的童年，很難完全發揮潛力；如果你想知道自己是否有足夠食物或居所，或擔心受到虐待或犯罪，那也很難發揮潛力；如果你擔心自己因膚色將會進入監獄而不能上大學，或這你的家人因為你的身份地位可能被驅逐，或你因為宗教、性傾向成為暴力受害者，你也很難發揮全部潛力。
我們需要能夠瞭解這些問題的機構，並將他們聯合起來。這就是你的母親正在創建的新式學校的理念。通過與學校、健康中心、家長團體以及當地政府合作，通過確保所有孩子從小都能獲得良好的食物和照料，我們開始將這些無法獲得平等機會的人連通起來。只有那時，我們才能真正開始給每個人以平等機會。
要想完全實現這個目標，可能需要多年時間，但這是推進人類潛能與促進平等之間緊密相聯的另一個例證。如果我們要實現這兩個使命，我們必須首先建立包容性的健康社區。
對於你們這一代生活在更好世界中的人來說，你們將能夠比我們做的更多。今天，我和你的母親承諾，我們將竭盡全力幫助解決這些挑戰。我將繼續擔任Facebook CEO多年，但這些問題太重要，可能需要你們長大或我們老時才會開始產生效果。可是從年輕時開始，我們希望在生活中能看到更多變化。
當你作為紮克伯格與陳氏家族的下一代出生時，我們也開始了陳-紮克伯格倡議活動，加入世界各地許多致力於推進人類潛能和促進平等的人的行列。我們最初關注的領域將是個性化學習、治癒疾病、連通人們以及建立強大社區。在我們有生之年，我們會捐出持有的Facebook 99%股份幫助實現這些使命。我們知道，與那些開始應對這些問題的天才相比，我們的貢獻相當小，但我們將竭盡全力。
一旦我們適應新的家庭節奏，並從育兒假回歸後，我們將在未來數月分享更多細節。我們知道，你們對我們為何和如何做這些項目存在許多疑問。隨著我們為人父母，並翻開生活的新篇章，我們希望對每個人深表謝意。
我們之所以要做這些工作，只因為我們的背後有強大的全球社區支持。建立Facebook已經創造了為下一代改善世界的資源，Facebook社區的每個成員都在發揮作用。我們只有站在專家的肩頭才能取得進展，我們的導師、合作夥伴以及許多令人難以置信的人，都在為這些領域的建設做出貢獻。
我們只關注服務社區和這個使命，因為我們被相親相愛的家庭、真心相待的朋友以及和睦相處的同事所包圍。我們希望你的生活中也能擁有同樣深刻和鼓舞人心的親情和友情。麥克斯，我們愛你，並覺得為你和所有孩子打造一個更好世界是我們的責任。我們希望你的生活中充滿了同樣的愛與希望，我們甚至已經等不及將你帶入這樣的世界。
愛你的爸爸媽媽
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紮克伯格與妻子寫給女兒的信英文原版
Dear Max,
Your mother and I don't yet have the words to describe the hope you give us for the future. Your new life is full of promise, and we hope you will be happy and healthy so you can explore it fully. You've already given us a reason to reflect on the world we hope you live in.
Like all parents, we want you to grow up in a world better than ours today.While headlines often focus on what's wrong, in many ways the world is getting better. Health is improving. Poverty is shrinking. Knowledge is growing. People are connecting. Technological progress in every field means your life should be dramatically better than ours today.
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.
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.
But right now, we don't always collectively direct our resources at the biggest opportunities and problems your generation will face.
Consider disease. Today we spend about 50 times more as a society treating people who are sick than we invest in research so you won't get sick in the first place.
Medicine has only been a real science for less than 100 years, and we've already seen complete cures for some diseases and good progress for others. As technology accelerates, we have a real shot at preventing, curing or managing all or most of the rest in the next 100 years.
Today, most people die from five things -- heart disease, cancer, stroke, neurodegenerative and infectious diseases -- and we can make faster progress on these and other problems.
Once we recognize that your generation and your children's generation may not have to suffer from disease, we collectively have a responsibility to tilt our investments a bit more towards the future to make this reality. Your mother and I want to do our part.
Curing disease will take time. Over short periods of five or ten years, it may not seem like we're making much 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.
There are so many opportunities just like this. If society focuses more of its energy on these great challenges, we will leave your generation a much better world.
• • •
Our hopes for your generation focus on two ideas: advancing human potential and promoting equality.
Advancing human potential is about pushing the boundaries on how great a human life can be.
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 so you have access to every idea, person and opportunity?
Can we harness more clean energy so you can invent things we can't 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 equality is about making sure everyone has access to these opportunities -- regardless of the nation, families or circumstances they are born into.
Our society must do this not only for justice or charity, but for the greatness of human progress.
Today we are 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 welcoming 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 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.
We must make long term investments over 25, 50 or even 100 years. The greatest challenges require very long time horizons and cannot be solved by short term thinking.
We must engage directly with the people we serve. We can't empower people if we don't understand the needs and desires of their communities.
We must build technology to make change. Many institutions invest money in these challenges, 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 each 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. We're early in our learning and many things we try won't work, but we'll listen and learn and keep improving.
• • •
Our experience with personalized learning, internet access, and community education and health has shaped our philosophy.
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 to become -- like an engineer, health worker, writer or community leader. You'll have technology that understands how you learn best and where you need to focus. You'll advance quickly in subjects that interest you most, and get as much help as you need in your most challenging areas. You'll explore topics that aren't 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 don't live near good schools. Of course it will take more 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.
We're starting to build this technology now, and the results are already promising. Not only do students perform better on tests, 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 you're in school.
Your mother and I have both taught students and we've seen what it takes to make this work. It will take working with the strongest leaders in education to help schools around the world adopt personalized learning. It will take engaging with communities, which is why we're starting in our San Francisco Bay Area community. It will take building new technology and trying new ideas. And it will take making mistakes 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 help students in good schools, it will help provide more equal opportunity to anyone with an internet connection.
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Many of the greatest opportunities for your generation will come from giving everyone access to the internet.
People often think of the internet as just for entertainment or communication. But for the majority of people in the world, the internet can be a lifeline.
It provides education if you don't live near a good school. It provides health information on how to avoid diseases or raise healthy children if you don't live near a doctor. It provides financial services if you don't live near a bank. It provides access to jobs and opportunities if you don't 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 the world's population -- more than 4 billion people -- don't 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 disease.
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 more equal world.
• • •
Technology can't solve problems by itself. Building a better world starts with building strong and healthy communities.
Children have the best opportunities when they can learn. And they learn best when they're healthy.
Health starts early -- with loving family, good nutrition and a safe, stable environment.
Children who face traumatic experiences early in life often develop less healthy minds and bodies. Studies show physical changes in brain development leading to lower cognitive ability.
Your mother is a doctor and educator, and she has seen this firsthand.
If you have an unhealthy childhood, it's difficult to reach your full potential.
If you have to wonder whether you'll have food or rent, or worry about abuse or crime, then it's difficult to reach your full potential.
If you fear you'll go to prison rather than college because of the color of your skin, or that your family will be deported because of your legal status, or that you may be a victim of violence because of your religion, sexual orientation or gender identity, then it's difficult to reach your full potential.
We need institutions that understand these issues are all connected. That's the philosophy of the new type of school your mother is building.
By partnering with schools, health centers, parent groups and local governments, and by ensuring all children are well fed and cared for starting young, we can start to treat these inequities as connected. Only then can we collectively start to give everyone an equal opportunity.
It will take many years to fully develop this model. But it's another example of how advancing human potential and promoting equality are tightly linked. If we want either, we must first build inclusive and healthy communities.
• • •
For your generation to live in a better world, there is so much more our generation can do.
Today your mother and I are committing to spend our lives doing our small part to help solve these challenges. I will continue to serve as Facebook's CEO for many, many years to come, but these issues are too important to wait until you or we are older to begin this work. By starting at a young age, we hope to see compounding benefits throughout our lives.
As you begin the next generation of the Chan Zuckerberg family, we also begin the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to join people across the world to advance human potential and promote equality for all children in the next generation. Our initial areas of focus will be personalized learning, curing disease, connecting people and building strong communities.
We will give 99% of our Facebook shares -- currently about $45 billion -- during our lives to advance this mission. We know this is a small contribution compared to all the resources and talents of those already working on these issues. But we want to do what we can, working alongside many others.
We'll share more details in the coming months once we settle into our new family rhythm and return from our maternity and paternity leaves. We understand you'll have many questions about why and how we're doing this.
As we become parents and enter this next chapter of our lives, we want to share our deep appreciation for everyone who makes this possible.
We can do this work only because we have a strong global community behind us. Building Facebook has created resources to improve the world for the next generation. Every member of the Facebook community is playing a part in this work.
We can make progress towards these opportunities only by standing on the shoulders of experts -- our mentors, partners and many incredible people whose contributions built these fields.
And we can only focus on serving this community and this mission because we are surrounded by loving family, supportive friends and amazing colleagues. We hope you will have such deep and inspiring relationships in your life too.
Max, we love you and feel a great responsibility to leave the world a better place for you and all children. We wish you a life filled with the same love, hope and joy you give us. We can't wait to see what you bring to this world.
Love,
Mom and Dad
