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科技
Technology
The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.
互联网只是把各种各样的信息带到家里。家长的声音要在孩子的耳朵里产生共鸣，会有很多干扰和竞争。
The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.
电脑提供了另一种创造力。你不能忽视计算机技术所带来的创造力。但是你需要能够在这两个不同的世界之间移动。
When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in the air to be taken, and to lose the sense that somebody once made it.
当任何东西数字化的时候，更不用说像书这样的非物质的东西了，人们倾向于把它看作是在空气中被带走的东西，而失去了曾经有人创造过它的感觉。
The best defense against these people is to educate parents and children of the dangers that come along with the Internet and by limiting access to certain sites during the school day.
对付这些人最好的办法是教育家长和孩子们了解互联网带来的危险，并在上学期间限制他们访问某些网站。
I think with the whole new Internet media, I'm not necessarily Internet savvy, but I just feel that the way that art in general will be presented to the public is going to be different.
我认为，随着全新的互联网媒体的出现，我并不一定精通互联网，但我只是觉得，总的来说，艺术呈现给公众的方式将会有所不同。
Despite claims by some to the contrary, we have heard numerous times in hearings and briefings by experts that existing technologies do not fully or effectively detect nuclear material.
尽管有些人提出相反的说法，但我们在听证会和专家简报会上多次听到，现有技术不能充分或有效地探测到核材料。
I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.
我想我认为这对我们当时所知道的电子产品来说是很重要的，但那是一个简单得多的行业，电子产品主要是收音机、电视机和第一台电脑。
Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.
也许，通过现代传播媒介的发展所产生的智力上的相互依赖也具有同样的特点:邮政、电报、电话和大众媒体。
I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.
当我写作的时候，我在屏幕上花费了太多的时间，你最不想做的事情就是花更多的时间在互联网上看屏幕。这就是我讨厌所有这些技术的原因。
Stories where the author has known very little, but run a computer program that tells him how to construct a planet, and looked up specific things about rocketry and so on, really suck.
有些故事作者所知甚少，但运行一个计算机程序告诉他如何建造一颗行星，并查找有关火箭等的具体信息，真的很糟糕。
You are going in one second the length of a football field. That means you brain is receiving information from your body what the car is doing physically, bumping, balance, performance.
你在一秒钟内就能走完足球场的长度。这意味着你的大脑从你的身体接收信息，汽车在做什么，碰撞，平衡，性能。
The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion.
当然，现代自然科学的进步远远超出了所有人的预期，任何有关自然科学可能存在某些局限性的说法，都必然会引起怀疑。
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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。
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。
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。
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。
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 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。