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Technology
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 computer seems easy because Apple makes the products so easy to use at home. It's the simple things, like getting the TV set up or getting the speakers to work. That drives me crazy.
电脑看起来很简单，因为苹果公司让产品在家里很容易使用。这些都是很简单的事情，比如把电视机装好或者让扬声器工作。我快疯了。
Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it for the love of programming.
编程不是零和游戏。向程序员同行传授一些东西并不会让你失去它。我很乐意分享我所能做的，因为我热爱编程。
Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.
没有电视和大众传播，这些知识就不会存在。所以我认为它实际上有可能把人们变成更善解人意、更善解人意的人。
Therefore, you are not training young people for the world of today and the world of tomorrow unless you are doing proven technology training. That is one of the reasons I'm so concerned.
因此，除非你在进行经过验证的技术培训，否则你不会为今天和明天的世界培训年轻人。这是我如此担心的原因之一。
The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce.
一个人学习如何利用自然的力量为自己的目的，通过完善科学和机器的发明和改进，他会生产更多。
I would like to see every parent either directly - if they are comfortable with the technology - or through a personal tutor, being able to access real-time information about their child.
我希望每一位家长都能直接看到——如果他们对这项技术感到满意的话——或者通过私人导师，能够获得关于他们孩子的实时信息。
The advantage of online banking is that you can pay bills superfast, and your account is automatically credited or debited for each deposit and payment, making it easier to stay on track.
网上银行的优势在于，你可以超高速地支付账单，而且你的账户在每次存款和付款时都会自动记入贷方或借方，让你更容易保持正轨。
We use tools such as email, not just as a way to keep in daily touch with family members who live in other cities, but also as a way to keep in touch with staff and members of the public.
我们使用电子邮件等工具，不仅是为了与居住在其他城市的家庭成员保持日常联系，也是为了与工作人员和公众保持联系。
Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production.
由于技术的限制，我们每英亩可以生产一定数量的食物。如果我们有集约化的温室农业，我们就能有更高的产量。
Anyone with a smart phone is a potential eyewitness cameraman capturing and transmitting stories at speeds that turn Reuter photos and traditional reporting into, well... yesterday's news.
任何一个拥有智能手机的人都有可能成为一名目击者摄像师，以使路透社的照片和传统报道变成……昨天的新闻。
Advances in technology and in our understanding of illness and disease together with an expanded workforce and greater resources will allow us to provide more services to a higher quality.
技术的进步和我们对疾病和疾病的理解，以及扩大的劳动力和更多的资源，将使我们能够提供更多高质量的服务。
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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。
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。
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。
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 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。