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There has been a huge advance in technology, which has improved the safety of the cars incredibly, but there are still some heavy crash impacts and in certain circumstances there is still the chance of fire today.
技术已经取得了巨大的进步,极大地提高了汽车的安全性,但仍然存在一些严重的碰撞影响,在某些情况下,今天仍然有发生火灾的可能。
Even if it was a difficult operation to copy a song, it only takes one person to do it. After that the spread of the song via the Internet or other means of propagation is only limited by the honesty of the users.
即使复制一首歌很困难,也只需要一个人。在那之后,歌曲通过互联网或其他传播方式的传播只受限于用户的诚实。
Some things are only capable of being done in space. Examples of that are looking at our Earth from that far away, and understanding the entire processes of storms and weather patterns, and oceans, and coastlines.
有些事情只能在太空中完成。其中的例子就是从那么远的地方观察我们的地球,了解风暴、天气模式、海洋和海岸线的整个过程。
In Einstein's general relativity the structure of space can change but not its topology. Topology is the property of something that doesn't change when you bend it or stretch it as long as you don't break anything.
在爱因斯坦的广义相对论中,空间的结构可以改变,但不能改变它的拓扑结构。拓扑是一种属性,当你弯曲或拉伸它时,只要你没有破坏任何东西,它就不会改变。
There’s a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they’d eventually come up with the entire works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the internet, we now know this isn’t true.
有一个统计理论,如果你给一百万只猴子打字机,让它们工作,它们最终会写出莎士比亚的全部作品。多亏了互联网,我们现在知道这不是真的。
And initially, a lot of companies avoid trying to make a really radical new kind of title for a new system, because that would involve learning a new machine and learning how to make the new title at the same time.
一开始,很多公司都避免为新系统设计一种全新的标题,因为这需要学习一种新机器同时学习如何制作新标题。
People interact with their phones very differently than they do with their PCs, and I think that when you design from the ground up with mobile in mind, you create a very different product than going the other way.
人们与手机的互动方式与他们与个人电脑的互动方式非常不同,我认为,当你从一开始就以手机为出发点进行设计时,你会创造出一种截然不同的产品。
Man is a fire-stealing animal, and we can't help building machines and machine intelligences, even if, from time to time, we use them not only to outsmart ourselves but to bring us right up to the doorstep of Doom.
人类是一种偷火的动物,我们无法不去制造机器和机器智能,即使我们时不时地使用它们,不仅是为了比自己更聪明,而且是为了把我们带到末日的门口。
With tens of thousands of patients dying every year from preventable medical errors, it is imperative that we embrace available technologies and drastically improve the way medical records are handled and processed.
每年有数以万计的病人死于可预防的医疗错误,我们必须采用现有的技术,大幅改进处理和处理医疗记录的方式。
When I see myself in the videogame it's amazing how realistic I look. This is the most authentic and realistic soccer game I have ever seen. It is like I'm looking in a mirror. The attention to detail is incredible.
当我在电子游戏中看到自己时,我发现自己看起来是多么的真实。这是我看过的最真实、最逼真的足球比赛。就像我在照镜子一样。对细节的关注令人难以置信。
That is really not much different from the search engines that are being constructed today for users throughout the entire world to allow them to search through databases to access the information that they require.
这与目前为全世界用户构建的搜索引擎并没有太大的不同,这些搜索引擎允许用户通过数据库搜索以访问他们需要的信息。
Nevertheless, the number of farmers, small as well as large, who are adopting the new seeds and new technology is increasing very rapidly, and the increase in numbers during the past three years has been phenomenal.
然而,无论大小,采用新种子和新技术的农民人数都在迅速增加,在过去三年中人数的增加是惊人的。
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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。
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。
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。
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?
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。
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?