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科技
Technology
There is an underlying, fundamental reliance on the Internet, which continues to grow in the number of users, country penetration and both fixed and wireless broadband access.
互联网是一种潜在的、根本性的依赖，它在用户数量、国家普及率以及固定和无线宽带接入方面继续增长。
Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relations, unprecedented criteria and issues are coming up for national decision.
由于新的技术、新的财富、新的国内生活条件和国际关系，出现了前所未有的标准和问题供各国作出决定。
I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it.
我认为，99%的妇女解放运动来自于使不同生活方式成为可能的技术，而社会调整紧随技术而来——而不是先于技术。
Devices are getting smarter - your television, your car - and that means more data spread around. There needs to be a fabric that connects all these devices. That's what we do.
设备变得越来越智能——你的电视，你的汽车——这意味着更多的数据被传播开来。需要有一个连接所有这些设备的结构。这就是我们所做的。
Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves.
技术可能创造条件，但问题是我们如何对待自己。我们更清楚地了解自己，也更容易找到喜欢自己的方法。
I have several computer companies. One of them I have a program for wide-format printing. I have a beauty program. So I have several different programs that I own for printing.
我有几家电脑公司。其中一个是宽幅打印程序。我有一个美容项目。我有几个不同的打印程序。
Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer.
计算机已经变得更友好、更容易理解，许多年来，人们花了很多时间和精力开发软件，使人们相信他们想要和需要一台计算机。
Technology has allowed us to have more drought-resistant crops. The spotty nature of drought, the spotty nature of rains can sometimes result in better yields than anticipated.
科技使我们有了更多的抗旱作物。干旱的不均匀性，降雨的不均匀性有时会导致比预期更好的产量。
I was trying to figure out what to do next, I'd been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use every day, particularly to help organize their lives.
我一直在思考下一步该做什么，我一直在为提高效率的工具积累想法——人们每天都可以使用的软件，尤其是帮助组织他们的生活的软件。
It is very clear that voice communications is moving on to the Internet. In the end, the price that anyone can provide for voice transmission on the Net will trend toward zero.
很明显，语音通信正在转向互联网。最终，任何人都可以在网上提供语音传输的价格将趋向于零。
New technologies such as solar systems or hybrid cars aren't created overnight. By extending these tax credits we are giving this industry time to grow, branch out and succeed.
太阳能系统或混合动力汽车等新技术不是一蹴而就的。通过延长这些税收抵免，我们给了这个行业增长、扩张和成功的时间。
You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university.
你不可能造出成千上万的大学或成千上万的教授，但有了技术和互联网，你可以拥有很棒的课程，并创建一所数字大学。
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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。
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
对于一项成功的技术，现实必须凌驾于公共关系之上，因为自然是不会被愚弄的。
The kind of environment that we developed Google in, the reason that we were able to develop a search engine, is the web was so open. Once you get too many rules, that will stifle innovation.
我们开发谷歌的环境，我们能够开发搜索引擎的原因，是网络是如此的开放。一旦你制定了太多的规则，就会扼杀创新。
The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
发明的进步赋予了人类一个世纪前最大胆的想象所无法想象的力量。
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?
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。