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科技
Technology
But we will lose the millions of records being created daily in a dizzying array of electronic forms unless we find a way to preserve and keep them accessible indefinitely.
但是，如果我们不能找到一种方法来无限期地保存和保持它们的可访问性，我们就会失去每天以令人眼花缭乱的电子形式创建的数以百万计的记录。
We should be exploring consciousness at the neural level and higher, where the arrow of causal analysis points up toward such principles as emergence and self-organization.
我们应该在神经层次和更高层次上探索意识，因果分析的箭头指向涌现和自组织等原则。
In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate and not well defined.
在相对论中，运动是连续的、因果确定的、定义良好的，而在量子力学中，运动是不连续的、非因果确定的、定义不好的。
Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.
科技在我们身边繁衍生息。在越来越大的程度上，它们决定了我们说话和思考的语言。我们要么使用这些语言，要么保持沉默。
In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough.
在今天思考纳米技术时，最重要的是理解它的发展方向，在我们实现汇编器的突破后纳米技术将会是什么样子。
We've lost touch and allowed technology to take precedence over organic nature. But let's not forget that those microchips in our computers came from elements of the earth.
我们失去了联系，让科技凌驾于有机自然之上。但是我们不要忘记，我们电脑里的微芯片来自地球的元素。
Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.
仅仅因为科学家有做这件事的知识，有做这件事的技术，而且有些人甚至有经济动机或其他动机去做这件事，并不能使它正确。
What is design? It's where you stand with a foot in two worlds - the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes - and you try to bring the two together.
设计是什么?它是你用一只脚站在两个世界里的地方——科技的世界，人的世界和人类的目的——你试图把两者结合在一起。
I have been wildly enthused about gaming since I was younger, and a career path I chose not to go down but did really consider was getting into programming and game design.
我从小就对游戏充满热情，我选择的职业道路并没有走下去，但我确实考虑过进入编程和游戏设计领域。
I find I use the Internet more and more. It's just an invaluable tool. I do most of my research on the Net now - and certainly do the bulk of my communicating through email.
我发现我越来越多地使用互联网。它只是一个无价的工具。我现在大部分的研究都是在网上进行的，当然，我的大部分交流都是通过电子邮件进行的。
We are going after a targeted group of businesses that are creating opportunities for themselves using other people's property. The Internet has very little to do with this.
我们瞄准的目标群体是那些利用他人财产为自己创造机会的企业。互联网与此关系不大。
Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated.
显然，编程课程应该教授设计和构建的方法，并且所选的示例应该能够很好地展示一个渐进的开发过程。
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All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.
人类创造的所有最伟大的技术发明——飞机、汽车、电脑——很少提到他的智力，但却充分说明了他的懒惰。
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。
Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.
人类的每一项发明、每一件工具、每一件仪器、每一件器物、每一种为使用而设计的物品，都是从非常简单的开始发展起来的。
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?
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。