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科技
Technology
People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is not about technology - although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies.
人们把它命名为第三次浪潮，信息时代，等等，但我想说的是，这些基本上都是技术描述，而下一个转变不是关于技术——尽管它显然会受到影响，在某些情况下会被技术表达出来。
Unfortunately, Climate Science has become Political Science. It is tragic that some perhaps well-meaning but politically motivated scientists who should know better have whipped up a global frenzy about a phenomena which is statistically questionable at best.
不幸的是，气候科学已经变成了政治科学。可悲的是，一些或许是出于好意但有政治动机的科学家本应更了解这一现象，却在全球掀起了一场对这一现象的狂热，而这一现象充其量在统计上是有问题的。
We accelerated our capital spending in the fourth quarter, particularly in international and next-generation network deployment, which should not only sustain future revenue growth but also drive significant cost reductions across all communications services.
我们在第四季度加快了资本支出，特别是在国际和下一代网络部署方面。这不仅将维持未来的收入增长，还将大幅降低所有通信服务的成本。
Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, namely that in a nonlinear system the outcome is often indefinitely, arbitrarily sensitive to tiny changes in the initial condition.
当然，“混沌”这个词在很多作家的作品中都有相当模糊的含义，但在物理学中，它指的是一种特殊的现象，即在非线性系统中，结果往往是不确定的，对初始条件的微小变化非常敏感。
From a technical point of view, there seemed to me to be absolutely no reason why - with the existing technology - we couldn't do very high quality audio, because whereas the boom in digital graphics is ongoing, the boom in digital audio has already happened.
从技术的角度来看，在我看来，完全没有理由，以现有的技术，我们不能做非常高质量的音频，因为尽管数字图形的繁荣正在进行中，数字音频的繁荣已经发生了。
What can we learn from the battle between data and design? What can we learn from the relationship between Google and Apple? Clearly no one school of thought is right: Apple and Google are both wildly successful and profitable companies that changed the world.
我们能从数据和设计之间的斗争中学到什么?我们可以从谷歌和苹果的关系中学到什么?显然，没有哪个学派的观点是正确的:苹果和谷歌都是非常成功且盈利丰厚的公司，它们改变了世界。
Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects.
因此，即使在自然科学领域，只要问题集是分析瞬态和非永久性的现象，而不仅仅是观察持久和相对恒定的对象，实验方法的帮助就变得必不可少。
Seriously, we are in the midst of the convergence of voice and data and that is challenging the infrastructure of the telephone companies. There are huge commercial interests in the basic technology, but even more so in content delivery and control of content.
严肃地说，我们正处于语音和数据的融合之中，这对电话公司的基础设施构成了挑战。在基础技术方面有巨大的商业利益，但在内容交付和内容控制方面更是如此。
That's what happens nowadays with people working on computers. They can so easily fix things with their mouse and take out all the, 'Oh, somebody coughed in the background; we need to take that out' - or somebody hit a bad note. Those are all the best moments.
这就是现在人们在电脑上工作的情况。他们可以很容易地用鼠标把东西修好，然后把‘哦，有人在后面咳嗽;我们需要把它拿出来’——否则就会有人唱出不好的音符。那些都是最美好的时刻。
I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.
我认为我们看到的是，随着人们越来越多地使用电子游戏，他们倾向于少看一些被动电视。所以用电脑上网，玩电子游戏，开始减少人们花在看电视上的令人难以置信的时间。
The second stream of material that is going to come out of this project is a programming environment and a set of programming tools where we really want to focus again on the needs of the newbie. This environment is going to have to be extremely user-friendly.
从这个项目中产生的第二种材料是一个编程环境和一组编程工具，我们真的想再次关注新手的需求。这个环境必须非常友好。
The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science.
厨房是一个实验室，那里发生的一切都与科学有关。是生物、化学、物理。是的,有历史。是的,有艺术性。是的，所有这些。但是在那里发生了什么，食物实际上发生了什么都是科学。
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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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。