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科技
Technology
Amazon is winning the eBook revolution, but it may lose the war.
亚马逊正在赢得电子书革命，但它可能输掉这场战争。
The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
技术的本质绝不是任何技术。
In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.
面对科技，一切都变得有点返祖。
The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom.
互联网就是一个在教室里传纸条的世界。
Nanotechnology is an idea that most people simply didn't believe.
纳米技术是一个大多数人根本不相信的概念。
I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.
我不懂技术和工程。我不懂会计。
There's no other product that changes function like the computer.
没有其他产品能像计算机一样改变功能。
In not much over a generation, physicists have changed our world.
在不到一代人的时间里，物理学家改变了我们的世界。
The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.
科学家们所作的最奇妙的发现是科学本身。
Nuclear physics is interesting but it is unlikely to help society.
核物理很有趣，但它不太可能帮助社会。
Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age.
在这个新的电子时代，隐私是最大的问题之一。
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
真正的问题不是机器是否会思考，而是人是否会思考。
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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 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。
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 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。
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。