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科技
Technology
The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.
最新的计算机只能以极快的速度把人类关系中最古老的问题——说话内容和说话方式——重新组合起来。
Today we have access to highly advanced technologies. But our social and economic system has not kept up with our technological capabilities that could easily create a world of abundance, free of servitude and debt.
今天，我们获得了高度先进的技术。但是，我们的社会和经济制度没有跟上我们的技术能力，我们的技术能力能够轻易地创造一个富裕、没有奴役和债务的世界。
An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that race leads in the long run, but strongly motivated by the short-term payoffs.
目前，一场有关技术的国际竞赛正在进行之中，这场竞赛不一定要了解这场竞赛在长期内的领先地位，而是受到短期收益的强烈推动。
I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from this public world to one of private performance and electronic media.
我敢说，作曲家将通过彻底、坚决和自愿地从这个公共世界退出到一个私人表演和电子媒体的世界，为他自己和他的音乐立即和最终作出贡献。
This is going to become a battle for access to your home and office plus mobility. It's about who can provide the biggest and least expensive and fastest pipe to your home and office and offer you a mobility feature.
这将成为一场进入你的家庭和办公室，以及机动性的战斗。这是关于谁能提供最大、最便宜、最快的管道到你的家和办公室，并为你提供移动功能。
However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute.
然而，我偶然遇到了史蒂文斯理工学院的招生官，他的博学和对学校的热情给我留下了深刻的印象，于是我改变了课程，进入了史蒂文斯理工学院。
In a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of decimals.
几年后，所有伟大的物理常数都将被近似地估计出来，而留给科学家的唯一职业将是把这些测量值带到小数点的另一个地方去。
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 complete 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集。多亏了互联网，我们现在知道这不是真的。
Pesticides came about after the first world war. Some brainy petrochemical money maker said, 'Hey, that mustard gas worked great on people, maybe we could dilute it down and spray it on our crops to deal with pests.'
农药是在第一次世界大战后出现的。一些精明的石化公司的财务人员说，‘嘿，芥子气对人体很有效，也许我们可以把它稀释后喷洒在农作物上，对付害虫。’
There was a lot of light and a lot of rumbling and vibration, especially the first minute or minute-and-a-half. And then after about two minutes, when the solid rocket boosters separated, the ride got a lot smoother.
有很多光，有很多隆隆声和震动，特别是在第一分钟或一个半分钟。大约两分钟后，固体火箭助推器分离了，飞行变得更加平稳。
We're looking at Earth science, observing our planet. Also space science, looking at the ozone in the atmosphere around our Earth. Also looking at life science. And on a human level, using ourselves as test subjects.
我们在研究地球科学，观察我们的星球。还有空间科学，研究地球周围大气中的臭氧。还有生命科学。在人类层面上，把我们自己作为测试对象。
I have seen that technology has contributed to improved communication, that it's contributed to better health care, that it's contributed to better food supplies, that it has contributed to all the basic human needs.
我看到科技促进了沟通，促进了更好的医疗保健，促进了更好的食物供应，促进了人类所有的基本需求。
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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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。