A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
奇点
Singularity
Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
奇点显示出思维出了问题。
But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
但如果技术奇点能够发生，它就会发生。
Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
任何知道一个奇怪事实的人都知道它的奇异之处。
The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
问题不仅在于奇点代表着人类从中心舞台上的消亡，而且它与我们根深蒂固的存在观念相矛盾。
I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.
我在上面已经论证过，我们无法阻止奇点的出现，奇点的到来是人类天生的竞争力和技术固有的可能性的必然结果。
We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.
我们说我们想创造美、身份、品质和独特性。然而，也许事实上，我们拥有的这些城市是我们想要的。也许正是他们的无个性为生活提供了最好的环境。
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
变化，持续的变化，不可避免的变化，才是当今社会的主导因素。任何明智的决定都不能再不考虑现在的世界，也不能再不考虑将来的世界。
The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future.
孩子们所受的教育更多的是关于欧洲最贫穷的国家，而不是他们出生和成长的国家，尽管这个国家有着独特的特点、对历史的兴趣、进步的速度以及对未来的巨大希望。