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科技
Technology
Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.
我们的科学变得可怕，我们的研究变得危险，我们的发现变得致命。我们物理学家必须与现实和平相处。现实没有我们强大。我们会毁了现实。
It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry's decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes more and more important and prosperous.
例如，随着计算机行业变得越来越重要和繁荣，追溯其在视觉、理想主义、创造力、浪漫和纯粹乐趣方面的衰落，是很有启发性的。
Now, there is always a tremendous fear of science and progressing forward into areas of the unknown and it is a valid fear. Some of the genetic alterations of food are a little edgy.
现在，总是有一种对科学的巨大恐惧，并不断向未知领域发展，这是一种合理的恐惧。食物的一些基因变化有些尖锐。
A molecular manufacturing technology will let us build molecular surgical tools, and those tools will, for the first time, let us directly address the problems at the very root level.
分子制造技术将让我们制造分子手术工具，而这些工具将让我们第一次直接从最根本的层面解决问题。
Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?
为什么我们不能给我们的老师一张免费获得软件的许可证，所有的软件，任何软件?是否有人在每次教孩子字母表的时候都要收取许可费?
While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially I consider it an impossibility, a development of which we need waste little time dreaming.
虽然电视在理论上和技术上是可行的，但在商业和财政上我认为它是不可能的，我们不需要浪费时间去梦想它的发展。
The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals.
处于领先地位的技术变化如此之快，以至于你必须在毕业后跟上潮流。我认为最重要的是要有好的基础。
You can be good at technology and like fashion and art. You can be good at technology and be a jock. You can be good at technology and be a mom. You can do it your way, on your terms.
你可以擅长技术，喜欢时尚和艺术。你可以擅长技术，成为一名运动员。你可以擅长技术，成为一名母亲。你可以按照自己的方式，按照自己的条件去做。
Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.
主要由于互联网的力量，中等收入的人可以团结起来，积累大量的钱，如果他们都同意，这些钱可以改变世界，为一些公共利益服务。
Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey.
毫无疑问，当人工智能将仅存的文明岛屿之一确定为新泽西时，它希望观众进入一个纯粹的幻想王国。
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。
There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspaper or start a magazine, there's just millions of voices and people want to be heard.
现在有这么多的媒体，有了互联网和人们，创办报纸或杂志既容易又便宜，有数百万的声音，人们希望被听到。
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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。
You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. It's logic-based creativity.
你可能不认为程序员是艺术家，但编程是一种极具创造性的职业。它是基于逻辑的创造力。
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。
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。
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?
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。