滿滿的情懷！紮克伯格寫給初生女兒的信(全文)

你的媽媽和我還無法用語言來形容你給予我們的未來的希望。你的新生命充滿了可能性，我們也希望你能夠健康開心地去充分探索它們。你的降生，讓我們有理由去重新審視這個你将要居留的世界。

12月1日，Facebook的創始人紮克伯格和其妻子普莉希拉宣布了他們的女兒麥克斯（Max）的出生，同時釋出公開信稱将在接下來的人生中捐出他們99%的Facebook股份。

以下為公開信全文：

給我們女兒的信

親愛的麥克斯，

你的媽媽和我還無法用語言來形容你給予我們的未來的希望。你的新生命充滿了可能性，我們也希望你能夠健康開心地去充分探索它們。你的降生，讓我們有理由去重新審視這個你将要居留的世界。

像所有的父母一樣，我們希望你在一個更好的世界中成長。

當新聞的頭條常常聚焦于什麼是錯的，那麼在很多方面我們的世界都在變得更好。健康在改善，貧窮在萎縮，知識在增長，人們互相連接配接（connecting）。每個領域的技術進步意味着你的生活應該明顯好于我們的。

我們盡力去讓它變為現實，不僅僅因為我們愛你，而且基于我們對下一代孩子們的道德責任。

我們相信所有的生命都有平等的價值，這不僅包括生活在今天的人們，也包括那些生活在未來世代的更多人。當下，我們的社會有更多的義務去提升那些将來之人的生活，而不僅僅是已在之人的。

然而就在現在，我們并不總是共同努力，在你們這一世代将面臨的最大機會和問題上投入資源。

想想疾病吧，目前社會在救治病人方面的投入要比預防疾病的研究的投入多五十倍。

醫學真正被稱為科學的曆史還不到100年，我們已經看到許多疾病被完全治愈，其他的許多也取得了很大進步。随着技術發展的加速，在接下來的100年裡，我們有足夠的信心（real shot）預防、治愈和管理其餘疾病中的大部分或者全部。

今天，大多數人死于五種疾病——心髒病、癌症、中風、神經退行性疾病和傳染病——我們可以在這些和其他問題上取得更快的進步。

每當我們想到你這一代和你孩子一代人可能不必遭受疾病之苦，我們就感覺到有責任讓它變為現實，把我們的投資向未來傾斜一點，這些都可能實作。你的媽媽和我都希望自己盡一份力。

治愈疾病需要一定的時間，短時間内——五年或十年，可能看不出我們起了多大的作用。但是長期來看，今天種下的種子将會生長，總有一天，你和你的孩子将看到隻出現在我們想象中的一幕：一個沒有疾病痛苦的世界。

類似的機遇還有很多。如果全社會在這些巨大挑戰上投入更多精力，我們會留給你們這一代一個更好的世界。

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對你們的希望集中在兩個想法上：拓展（advance）人類潛能和推進平等。

拓展潛能就是推動人類偉大生活的邊界。

你的學習和體驗能夠一百倍于我們今天麼？

你們這一輩能夠治愈疾病進而獲得更長更健康的生命麼？

我們能不能連接配接這個世界使你們得以接觸每個觀點、每個人和每個機會？

我們能不能夠使用更清潔的能源，使你們能夠發明我們今天難以設想的方式保護環境？

我們能不能培育這樣的企業家精神使你們能夠建立任何事業解決任何挑戰，進而實作和平與繁榮？

推進平等是保證每個人都能夠擁有這樣的機會——無論國籍、家庭或出生的環境。

我們的社會必須推進平等，不僅是出于平等或慈善的考慮，而是為了更偉大的人類進步。

今天我們實作的潛能都遠不及我們被賦予的。（Today we are robbed of the potential so many have to offer）。實作我們潛能的唯一途徑就是集中全世界每個人的天賦、想法和貢獻。

我們這一代能消除貧困和饑餓麼？

我們能夠為每個人提供基本的衛生保健麼？

我們能夠建立包容和令人愉悅（welcoming）的社群麼？

我們能夠在各個國家的人民之間培育和平和了解的關系麼？

我們能否真正賦予每個人權利——女人、孩子、少數族裔、移民和未融入社會的人（the unconnected）。

如果我們這一代人做了正确的投資，以上每個問題的答案都是“能（yes）”——而且有望在你的一生中得到實作。

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這些使命——拓展人類潛能和推進平等——實作這些目标的所有工作，都需要新的實作途徑。

我們必須進行25年、50年甚至100年的長期投資。這些最大的挑戰需要非常長時間跨度的思考，短期的思考無濟于事。

我們必須盡力了解我們要服務的人。如果不了解他們社群的需求和渴望，我們無法賦予人們權利。

我們必須發展（build）技術做出改變。許多機構都為應對這些挑戰投資，但最重要的進步都來自于創新帶來的生産率提高。

我們必須參與政策和宣傳以影響辯論。許多機構無意從事于此，但是進步必須由可持續的運動支援。

我們必須支援各個領域最強和最獨立的上司人物。與專家建立夥伴關系，而非我們自己上司，這能讓我們更有效的完成使命。

我們必須在今天敢于冒險，為明天積累經驗。我們的學習資曆尚淺，我們努力的許多事情不見成效，但是我們會注意傾聽和學習，保持進步。

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我們在個性化學習、通路網際網路、社群教育和健康方面的經驗塑造了我們的人生觀念。

我們這一代在教室裡成長，在那裡我們以相同的進度學習相同内容，而不顧我們的興趣和需求。

你們這一代人可以為“想要成為什麼”設立目标——比如工程師、衛生工作者、作家或者社群領袖。你們會擁有這樣的技術，使你們了解怎樣學得最好，哪裡需要注意。你們會在自己最感興趣的領域進步神速，在你們認為最有挑戰性的領域獲得足夠的幫助。你們将會探索那些今天學校裡并不提供的課程。你們的老師也會擁有更好的工具和資料去幫助你們實作目标。

更妙的是，世界上的所有學生将可以使用網際網路上的個性化的學習工具，即使他們并不住在好學校附近。當然，除了科技之外，我們還需要投入更多努力讓每個人的生命都有公平的起點。但是個性化的學習能夠以可擴充的方式給所有孩子提供更好的教育和更為平等的機會。

我們現在正在發展這樣的技術，目前的結果也令人充滿希望，學生們不僅在考試中有更好的表現，而且獲得了學習任何内容的技巧和信心。

這一旅程才剛剛開始，科技和教學會在你上學後每一年都得到快速改善。

你的媽媽和我都曾經教過學生，而且我們看到要想使願望成真需要付出什麼。這将需要與教育界最強的上司者合作，幫助全世界的學校采用個性化學習。這将需與社群建立密切的關系，這正是我們在舊金山灣區社群着手去做的。這将需要發展新的技術嘗試新的觀念。而且在達成這些目标之前，我們會犯一些錯誤，吸取一些教訓。

但是想到我們可以為你們這一代人創造的世界，我們社會就有責任使投資聚焦于未來，讓這一夢想成真。

一同努力，我們可以做到。而當我們做到之後，個性化學習不僅僅會幫到好學校中的學生，也會為每個接入網際網路的人提供平等的機會。

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你們這一代人中最大的機會之一就是每個人都可以使用網際網路。人們常以為網際網路僅僅是用來娛樂和交流的，但是對于這個世界上大多數人來說，網際網路就是生命線。

如果你身邊沒有很棒的學校，它會給你提供教育。如果你身邊沒有醫生，它會提供有關預防疾病和生養健康孩子的健康資訊。如果你身邊沒有銀行，它會給你提供金融服務。如果你經濟條件不樂觀，它會給你提供工作和機會。

網際網路是這麼重要：每10個接入網際網路的人中就有1個擺脫貧困，與此同時一個工作崗位也被創造出來。

但是世界上仍有一半以上的人口——超過40億人——并沒有接入網際網路。

如果我們這一代人能夠與他們連接配接，我們可以幫助億萬人擺脫貧困，我們也可以幫助億萬兒童獲得教育。而通過幫助人們預防疾病，我們也可以拯救數百萬生命。

這一長期的努力，也可以由科技和夥伴關系推進。這将需要發明新的技術使網際網路更加便宜，使未連接配接的地區加入網際網路。這将需要與政府、非盈利機構和公司的夥伴關系。這将需要與社群建立密切聯系，去了解他們真正需要什麼。善良的人們對于未來最好的道路有不同的看法，成功之前我們将會做很多嘗試。

但是在一起我們會成功并且創造更為平等的世界。

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科技并不會解決它自己産生的問題。 建設一個更好的世界始于建設更為強大和健康的社群。

當可以學習的時候，兒童擁有最好的機會，而身體健康，可以讓兒童學得更好。

健康則從充滿愛意的家庭，良好的營養和安全穩定的環境開始。

兒童早年的創傷經曆常常影響他們的身心健康。研究表明大腦發展中的實體變化會導緻較低的認知能力。

你的媽媽是一位醫生和教育者，她很早就注意到這點。

如果你的童年不健康，那麼你很難完全實作你的潛能。

如果你必須為食物和房租擔心，或者為辱罵和犯罪擔心，那麼你很難完全實作你的潛能。

如果你擔心因為自己的膚色而進入監獄而不是大學，如果你擔心你的家庭因為法律地位而将被遣返，或者你可能因為自己的宗教信仰、性取向或性别認同而成為暴力的受害者，那麼你很難完全實作你的潛能。

這些議題都是互相聯系的，我們需要能夠了解這一現狀的機制。這正是你媽媽正在建立的一種新型學校的理念。

通過與學校、健康中心、家長團體和當地政府建立夥伴關系，通過確定所有兒童會從一開始得到很好的照顧和關心，我們可以開始處理這些互相聯系的不平等現象。隻有這樣我們才能共同為每個人提供平等的機會。

充分發展這一模式可能需要很多年。這是拓展人類潛能和推進平等兩個議題緊密聯系的又一個例證。如果我們想要其中任一，都必須首先建設包容性的健康社群。

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為了讓你們這一代生活在更好的世界上，我們這一代人還有太多的事情要做。

今天，你的媽媽和我緻力于做好自己的一小部分工作，以應對這些挑戰。我會在接下來很多年裡繼續擔任Facebook的CEO。但是這些議題太重要以至于不能等到你更大一些再去着手。而在年輕的時候開始，我們希望在有生之年看到這一決定帶來的好處。

随着你成為陳—紮克伯格家族的下一代，我們也發起了陳—紮克伯格項目（Chan Zuckerberg Initiative），聚合全世界的人們的力量，為了所有下一代的兒童拓展人類潛能的和推動平等。我們項目領域集中在個性化學習、治愈疾病、連接配接人群和建設強大的社群。

在接下來的人生中，我将會捐出Facebook股份的99%——現在的價值大約是450億美元——推進這一使命。我們知道與已經在這一領域耕耘的資源和天才相比，這隻是一筆很小的捐贈。但是我們希望與其他人一道，去做我們能做之事。

接下來幾個月，等我們融入了新的家庭節奏，從産假中恢複過來之後，我們會分享更多的相關細節。我們了解，關于我們為什麼這樣做和如何做下去，你們會有很多疑問。

在我們為人父母，生命翻開了新的一頁，對于一切使之成為可能的人，我們希望表達自己的深深感激。

我們能這樣做隻是因為有強大的全球社群站在我們背後。創立Facebook為改善下一代的世界創造了資源。Facebook社群的每一位成員都在這一項工作中扮演角色。

站在專家的肩膀上——我們的導師、夥伴和那些為這些領域做出貢獻的值得信賴的人，我們才可以不斷取得進展。

我們隻需要集中精力服務社群和使命，因為我們身邊都是充滿愛意的家庭、給予幫助的朋友和了不起的同僚。我們希望你在生命中也擁有這種有深入的、鼓舞人心的關系。

麥克斯，我們愛你，我們有強烈的責任感把你和所有的孩子們居住的世界變成更好的地方。我們希望你的生命也充滿愛、希望和愉快，就像你給我們帶來的一樣。我們迫不及待地想要看到，你給這個世界帶來的美好。

愛你的，

媽媽和爸爸

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.

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　　Our hopes for your generation focus on two ideas: advancing human potentialand promoting equality.

　　Advancing human potentialis 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 equalityis 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.

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　　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.

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　　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.

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　　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.

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　　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 Initiativeto 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