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科技
Technology
The concern is over what will happen as strong encryption becomes commonplace with all digital communications and stored data. Right now the use of encryption isn't all that widespread, but that state of affairs is expected to change rapidly.
人们担心的是，随着强加密技术在所有数字通信和存储数据中变得司空见惯，将会发生什么。目前，加密技术的使用还不是很普遍，但这种情况预计将很快发生变化。
The big reason why we don't have space colonies and regular trips to the moon is that flying into outer space is just plain 'hard.' The business of safely transporting people off the Earth is a costly affair that requires a lot of technology.
我们没有太空殖民地，也没有定期去月球旅行的一个重要原因是，飞到外层空间是非常“困难”的。“安全运送人类离开地球是一项耗资巨大的事业，需要大量的技术。
A potato can grow quite easily on a very small plot of land. With molecular manufacturing, we'll be able to have distributed manufacturing, which will permit manufacturing at the site using technologies that are low-cost and easily available.
马铃薯可以很容易地在一小块土地上生长。通过分子制造，我们将能够实现分布式制造，这将允许现场制造使用低成本且容易获得的技术。
The other advantage is that in conventional manufacturing processes, it takes a long time for a factory to produce an amount of product equal to its own weight. With molecular machines, the time required would be something more like a minute.
另一个优点是，在传统的制造过程中，工厂需要很长时间才能生产出与自身重量相当的产品。对于分子机器，所需的时间更像是一分钟。
Future historians will surely see us as having created in the media a Frankenstein monster whom no one knows how to control or direct, and marvel that we should have so meekly subjected ourselves to its destructive and often malign influence.
未来的历史学家肯定会认为，我们在媒体上创造了一个没有人知道如何控制或指挥的弗兰肯斯坦怪物，并惊讶于我们竟然如此温顺地屈从于其破坏性的、往往是有害的影响。
Most of the musicians that I know almost to the man everybody uses Apple computers. They've thought of the steps that you're going to think of when you're trying to create your thing. And that's where the tools get invented to make better art.
我认识的大多数音乐家几乎都是用苹果电脑的人。他们已经想到了你在创造你的东西时要考虑的步骤。这就是创造出更好的艺术工具的地方。
But some great records are are being made with today's technology and there are still great artists among us. Likewise there are artists today who are so reliant on modern technology, they wouldn't have emerged when recording was more organic.
但是一些伟大的记录是用今天的技术创造的，我们当中仍然有伟大的艺术家。同样，今天也有一些艺术家如此依赖现代技术，如果唱片更加有机，他们也不会出现。
Technology tools such as laptops are the kind of help that we need. A program that provides laptops for all youngsters would close a gap that most of us are not aware of, or will not admit to, which is a tremendous gap in the poor communities.
像笔记本电脑这样的技术工具正是我们所需要的帮助。一个为所有青少年提供笔记本电脑的项目将缩小我们大多数人没有意识到或不愿承认的差距，这在贫困社区是一个巨大的差距。
We need a number of solutions - we need more efficiency and conservation. Efficiency is a big one. I think car companies need to do a lot better in producing more efficient cars. They have the technology, we just need to demand them as consumers.
我们需要一系列的解决方案——我们需要更多的效率和节约。效率是个大问题。我认为汽车公司需要在生产更高效的汽车方面做得更好。他们有技术，我们只需要把他们当作消费者来需求。
Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.
大多数人对自动变速器的工作原理一无所知，但他们知道如何开车。你不需要学习物理就能理解开车时的运动规律。在使用麦金塔电脑时，你不需要了解这些东西。
When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated.
当空调、自动扶梯和广告出现时，购物扩大了它的规模，但也限制了它的自发性。它变得更加可预测，几乎是科学的。曾经最令人惊讶的事情变成了最受操纵的事情。
My job as artistic director at the Brighton digital agency Lighthouse is all about trying to show that digital culture is about more than just tools and gadgets - it's about perceiving the societal transformations being brought about by technology.
作为布莱顿灯塔数码公司的艺术总监，我的工作就是努力向人们展示，数码文化不仅仅是工具和小玩意，它还包括感知科技带来的社会变革。
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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。
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。
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?
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。