比尔·盖茨慈善演讲:关注非洲,改变世界

每年的TED(TED为：科技technology、娱乐entertainment、设计design的缩写)大会都会聚集全球卓越的思想家，就科学、艺术、政治、全球性问题、建筑、音乐等各个领域的问题进行交流。今年比尔·盖茨也受到了大会的邀请，在"重启(Rebooting)"环节进行了精彩的演讲。有意思的是，盖茨在大会会场上散播了一些蚊子，他称，"没有理由只是让穷人体验被蚊子攻击的滋味"。

Bill Gates hopes to solve some of the world's biggest problems using a new kind of philanthropy. In a passionate and, yes, funny 18 minutes, he asks us to consider two big questions and how we might answer them.

Bill Gates is founder and former CEO of Microsoft. A geek icon, tech visionary and business trailblazer, Gates' leadership -- fueled by his long-held dream that millions might realize their potential through great software -- made Microsoft a personal computing powerhouse and a trendsetter in the Internet dawn. Whether you're a suit, chef, quant, artist, media maven, nurse or gamer, you've probably used a Microsoft product today.

In summer of 2008, Gates left his day-to-day role with Microsoft to focus on philanthropy. Holding that all lives have equal value (no matter where they're being lived), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has now donated staggering sums to HIV/AIDS programs, libraries, agriculture research and disaster relief -- and offered vital guidance and creative funding to programs in global health and education. Gates believes his tech-centric strategy for giving will prove the killer app of planet Earth's next big upgrade.

"When Gates looks at the world, a world in which millions of preventable deaths occur each year, he sees an irrational, inefficient, broken system, an application that needs to be debugged. It shocks him -- his word -- that people don't see this, the same way it shocked him that nobody but he and [Paul] Allen saw the microchip for what it was."

-Time