比爾蓋茨"向我提問"：地上有100美元我會撿

"Hello Reddit - I'm Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Microsoft founder. Ask me anything."
“Reddit你好！我是比爾-蓋茨，比爾與梅琳達蓋茨基金會聯合主席及微軟創始人。你可以問我任何問題。”

And so they did.
結果人們真的就什麼都問。

Fresh from helping to choose the next CEO to run the company he co-founded nearly four decades ago, Gates descended from the mountaintop to mix it up with the new media masses with his second Reddit appearance in the last year.
大約40年前，比爾-蓋茨創辦了微軟公司，而他在幫忙選完微軟的下屆CEO後，開始與媒體打起了交道。去年他已經參加過一次Reddit問答了，今年是第二次參加。

Even before the festivities officially got underway, Gates posted a video where he answered a question ahead of time by someone left on the Reddit board asking whether he would pick up a $100 bill if he saw the money lying on the ground.
在正式參加問答活動前，比爾-蓋茨還在網上發佈了一則視頻，視頻中他回答了此前網友在Reddit留言板上提出的問題，比如：如果你發現地上有100美元，你會去撿嗎？

"Well, all my thoughts about money were formed at a time when $100 really was a substantial amount of it's lying there and maybe it belongs to somebody and you ought to find it for them and return it to them," he said. "It'd be nice. They'd probably be fairly distraught about having dropped it. But i would pick it up and give it to the foundation because there, $100 actually buys quite a bit."
比爾-蓋茨回答說“在我還認爲100美元是一大筆錢的時候，我就已經形成了對待金錢的觀念。所以，一張鈔票掉在地上，也許是其他人掉落的，而你應該撿起來還給失主。這是善舉，因爲掉錢的人可能因爲掉了鈔票而懊喪不已。如果是我的話，我會把100美元撿起來並放進基金會，因爲這100美元可以派上很大的用途。”Q: How do you feel about the NSA and its oversight of computer usage?

Bill Gates: This is a complex issue. Privacy will be increasingly important as cameras and GPS sensors are gathering information to try and be helpful. We need to have trust in the way information is protected and gathered. There is a role for the government to try and stop crime and terrorism but it will have to be more open. I do think terrorism with biological or nuclear weapons is something we want to minimize the chance of.

Q: What are your thoughts about cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin?

A: The [Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation] is involved in digital money but unlike Bitcoin it would not be anonymous digital money. In Kenya M-pesa is being used for almost half of all transactions. Digital money has low transaction costs which is great for the poor because they need to do financial transactions with small amounts of money. Over the next 5 years I think digital money will catch on in India and parts of Africa and help the poorest a lot.

Q: You’re working with TerraPower to bring a large scale source of low-carbon energy onto the commercial grid. What, in your opinion, is the biggest impediment to bringing new nuclear technology onto the global market?

A: We need low cost energy that is totally reliable. Most renewables will require storage which is expensive to do this. Nuclear will make a contribution if we can make it safer, cheaper and deal with waste better. Terrapower has a design (on paper) that addresses all of these issues so now we are talking to countries about building it. It is a 4th generation reactor design that uses depleted uranium.

Q: Any luck with the condom design competition?

A: This is a sensitive topic. The idea was that men don’t like the current design so perhaps something they would be more open to would allow for less HIV transmission. We still haven’t gotten the results. One grantee is using carbon nanotubes to reduce the thickness.

Q: What smartphone and/or tablet are you currently using?

A: I am using a Surface 2 PRO which works well for me.

Q: What is the worst case that you know of where your philanthropy backfired?

A: A lot of our failures have been backing science that didn’t work out. One thing that is tough is when you think the government will take over something you start but they don’t — we had that with a school lunch program. It might have been better if we hadn’t done it.