Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, announced a $3 billion plan to ‘cure all diseases.’
The 3 Billion plan will be simply called “Chan Zuckerberg Science.”
Mark said: “The goal is to cure, prevent, or manage all diseases in our children’s lifetime.”
Chan said:
“We want to dramatically improve every life in
[our daughter] Max’s generation and make sure we don’t miss a single soul.”
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative will have three parts:
Bring scientists and engineers together, build tools to “empower” people around the world and promote a “movement” to fund science globally.
The amazing new venture will receive $3 billion in funds over the next decade.
via popsci
I’m supposed to be happy about this, but I can’t help thinking that a fairer economic system would ensure that this kind of research would be properly funded and there wouldn’t be a need for such PR jestures.