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科技
Technology
What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.
我们必须明白的是，现代科学创造的工业、过程和发明既可以用来征服，也可以用来解放。选择权在我们手中。
Love. It isn't very popular in technical circles to say a lot of mushy stuff about love, but frankly it's a very very important part of what holds our project together.
爱。在技术领域，说很多关于爱的模糊的东西并不流行，但是坦白地说，这是将我们的项目结合在一起的一个非常非常重要的部分。
There are things that you can do today that, years ago, there was nothing. The community today needs to know that with MRI and the current medications the view is good.
有些事情你今天可以做，而几年前，什么都没有。今天的社区需要知道，通过核磁共振成像和目前的药物治疗，视野是好的。
In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to space... But you laid the foundation for space tourism.
在过去，只有在科幻小说中，你才能读到普通人能够进入太空的故事……但你为太空旅游打下了基础。
She came up with a whole way of doing fluoroscopy, which is kind of like a live version of X-ray, so that she could see the heart as it worked, not frozen in a picture.
她想出了一种透视的方法，有点像活版的x光，这样她就能看到心脏工作时的样子，而不是在照片上冻结。
I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement
我对技术很在行，我一直都很擅长，对机器也很擅长。它们看起来不像其他人发现的那样具有威胁性，而是一种乐趣和娱乐的来源
There are plenty of skills I've learned from playing video games. It's more interactive than watching TV, because there are problems to solve as you're using your brain.
我从玩电子游戏中学到了很多技能。它比看电视更具互动性，因为当你使用你的大脑时，有些问题需要解决。
I carry an umbrella when I am outdoors and always wear sunscreen, even when I am sitting in front of a computer screen! I never touch coffee or other caffeinated drinks.
当我在户外时，我带着一把伞，而且总是涂防晒霜，即使我坐在电脑屏幕前!我从不碰咖啡或其他含咖啡因的饮料。
And once you get instantaneous communication with everybody, you have economic activity that's far more advanced, far more liquid, far more distributed than ever before.
一旦你能与每个人即时沟通，你的经济活动就会比以往任何时候都更加先进，更加流动，更加分散。
By recognizing that the chemical atom is composed of single separable electric quanta, humanity has taken a great step forward in the investigation of the natural world.
由于认识到化学原子是由单个可分离的电量子组成的，人类在研究自然界方面向前迈出了一大步。
There may be something to the suggestion about the pace of technological change intimidating writers, though - it's been awfully hard to keep ahead of real developments.
不过，关于技术变革的速度令作家感到恐惧的说法，可能有一定的道理——要保持领先于真正的发展是非常困难的。
Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.
人们崇拜机器，因为它们美丽而珍贵，因为它们赋予权力;人们憎恨他们，因为他们丑陋不堪，憎恨他们，因为他们强加奴隶制度。
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Wouldn't it be great if the technology we used to take care of ourselves was as good as the technology we use to make money?
如果我们用来照顾自己的技术和我们用来赚钱的技术一样好，那不是很棒吗?
People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?
人们今天比以往活得更长。他们过着更快乐的生活，拥有更多的知识和信息。所有这些都是通信技术的结果。有什么不好的?
The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.
我们拥有的，而机器没有的，是展示智慧的能力。
Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience.
尽管技术上有了很大的进步，但归根结底还是一个男人或一个女人和麦克风，播放音乐，分享故事，谈论问题——与观众交流。
Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say.
技术给了我们力量，但它没有也不能告诉我们如何使用这种力量。多亏了科技，我们可以在世界各地即时交流，但它仍然不能帮助我们知道该说什么。
The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.
信息技术的最大好处是它使人们能够做他们想做的事情。它让人们变得有创造力。它让人们更有效率。它让人们学习他们以前认为自己学不到的东西，所以从某种意义上说，这一切都是关于潜力的。