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When radio stations started playing music the record companies started suing radio stations. They thought now that people could listen to music for free, who would want to buy a record in a record shop? But I think we all agree that radio stations are good stuff.
当广播电台开始播放音乐时，唱片公司开始起诉广播电台。他们认为现在人们可以免费听音乐，谁会想在唱片店买唱片呢?但是我想我们都同意电台是好东西。
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
我们还把事情安排得几乎没有人了解科学和技术。这是灾难的处方。我们可能会侥幸逃脱一段时间，但这种无知和权力的可燃混合物迟早会在我们的脸上爆炸。
If the Net becomes the center of the universe, which is what seems to be happening, then the dizzying array of machines that will be plugged into it will virtually guarantee that the specifics of which chip and which operating system you've got will be irrelevant.
如果网络成为宇宙的中心，这似乎是正在发生的事情，那么将被接入其中的令人眼花缭乱的机器阵列实际上将保证你所拥有的芯片和操作系统的细节将变得无关紧要。
Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally.That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world.
因此，以现代技术的能力为例:我们的道德意识的力量与通讯的力量以及我们在国际上组织的能力相结合。在我看来，这给了我们作为一个整体从根本上改变世界的第一个机会。
The next generation of innovators, who need neutrality the most, are not at the bargaining table. They're hard at work in their labs or classrooms, dreaming of the next big thing, and hoping that the Internet is as open to them as it was to the founders of Google.
最需要中立的下一代创新者不在谈判桌上。他们在实验室或教室里努力学习，梦想着下一件大事，希望互联网像谷歌的创始人一样对他们开放。
Cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals...the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consummated in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.
今天的汽车几乎和哥特式大教堂一模一样……这是一个时代的最高创造，由不知名的艺术家满怀激情地构思出来，即使没有被把他们当作纯粹的魔法物品的全体人民所使用，也在形象上达到了完美。
The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone.
大多数人购买家用电脑最引人注目的原因将是将其连接到一个全国性的通讯网络。对于大多数人来说，我们正处于一个真正非凡的突破的初级阶段——就像电话一样非凡。
And the camera position, the organization, looking for repeating forms, shapes, trying to set up a visual rhythm seemed to come very natural. All of a sudden I was in a forest of aluminum and steel rather than a forest that we might think of in a traditional sense.
而相机的位置，组织，寻找重复的形式，形状，试图建立一个视觉节奏似乎是非常自然的。突然间，我进入了一片铝和钢的森林，而不是传统意义上的森林。
If I was designing a web site for elementary school children, I might have a much higher percentage of older computers with outdated browsers since keeping up with browser and hardware technology has not traditionally been a strong point of most elementary schools.
如果我在为小学生设计一个网站，我可能会有更高比例的老式电脑使用过时的浏览器，因为跟上浏览器和硬件技术并不是大多数小学的强项。
It has long been known that the chemical atomic weight of hydrogen was greater than one-quarter of that of helium, but so long as fractional weights were general there was no particular need to explain this fact, nor could any definite conclusions be drawn from it.
人们早就知道氢的化学原子量大于氦的四分之一，但只要分数权重是一般的，就没有必要特别解释这个事实，也不能从中得出任何明确的结论。
Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factories and offices with machines, making stockholders richer and workers poorer, are indeed tending to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth.
许多技术正在以最快的速度向前发展，用机器取代工厂和办公室里的工人，让股东变得更富有，让工人变得更贫穷，这些技术确实倾向于加剧财富分配方面现有的不平等。
If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights to every image and sound, then the copyright system is burdening creativity in a way that has never been seen before because there are no formalities.
如果一家图书馆提供有关新政的互联网展览的唯一途径是聘请律师来清理每一幅图像和声音的权利，那么版权制度就会以一种前所未有的方式给创造力增加负担，因为没有任何手续。
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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?
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。
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?
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 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。