现代社会拥有无与伦比的创新精神,而斯坦福大学正处在创新的核心。斯坦福孕育了许许多多的新公司,有思想的学校,硕果累累的教授,富有灵感的艺术文化,创新的软件,药品,还有优秀的毕业生。无论你是收获新发现的科学家,还是在深沟中了解社会最边缘人的需求,你都在为人类相互间的协作做出惊人的突破。
At the same time, if you ask people across the United States is the future going to be better than the past, most say no. My kids will be worse off than I am. They think innovation won't make the world better for them or their children.
同时,如果你问全美国的人——未来回避过去更好吗?大部分人会说不,我的孩子不如我优秀。他们认为创新不会让自己或孩子的世界更好。
So who is 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 don't think innovation will change that?
那么谁是对的?是那些说创新产生新机遇让世界更好的人么?还是那些目睹不平衡的趋势,目睹机遇减少且不指望创新带来改变的人呢?
The pessimists are wrong, in my view. But they are not crazy. If innovation is purely market driven, and we don't focus on the big inequities, then we could have amazing advances and in inventions that leave the world even more divided. We won't improve cure public schools, we won't cure malaria, we won't end poverty. We won't develop the innovations poor farmers need to grow food in a changing climate.
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