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I want to know what changed in fully modern humans, compared with Neanderthals, that made a difference. What made it possible for us to build up these enormous societies, and spread around the globe, and develop the technology that I think no one can doubt is unique to humans.
我想知道，与尼安德特人相比，完全现代人类发生了什么变化，从而产生了不同。是什么让我们有可能建立这些庞大的社会，并传播到全球，发展我认为没有人能怀疑的人类独有的技术。
If you wanna know how not secure you are, just take a look around. Nothing's secure. Nothing's safe. I don't hate technology, I don't hate hackers, because that's just what comes with it, without those hackers we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security.
如果你想知道你有多不安全，看看周围。没有什么是安全的。没有什么是安全的。我不讨厌技术，我不讨厌黑客，因为这就是它所带来的，没有这些黑客，我们就无法解决我们需要解决的问题，尤其是安全问题。
Were we required to characterise this age of ours by any single epithet, we should be tempted to call it, not an Heroical, Devotional, Philosophical, or Moral Age, but above all others, the Mechanical Age. It is the Age of Machinery, in every outward and inward sense of the word.
如果我们被要求用一个词来描述我们这个时代，我们会忍不住称它为机械时代，而不是一个英雄主义的、虔诚的、哲学的或道德的时代。这是一个机械的时代，从外在和内在的意义上来说都是如此。
I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals; I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.
我认为今天的汽车几乎和哥特式大教堂一模一样;我指的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，如果不是被把他们当作纯粹的魔法物品的全体人民所使用，而是被形象所消费。
The industrial processes in use today were developed at a time when no one had to consider what the environmental impact was. Who cared? But making ecological concerns matter to a company's bottom line will help it do the research and development that will reinvent everything we buy.
今天使用的工业过程是在没有人必须考虑环境影响的时候发展起来的。谁关心呢?但将生态问题纳入公司的底线，将有助于公司进行研究和开发，彻底改造我们所购买的一切。
We should find inspiration in the senses that already exist and try to copy them and apply them to us. If we compare our senses to the senses of other animals and species that we don't have, we can get ideas for new abilities that we can adapt to humans by applying cybernetics to the body.
我们应该从已经存在的感官中寻找灵感，并试图将它们复制并应用到我们身上。如果我们将自己的感官与其他动物和物种的感官进行比较，我们就能得到一些新能力的想法，我们可以通过将控制论应用于身体来适应人类。
Google is one of the most incredible breakthroughs that we have today. Yes, it can scare a lot of patients, thinking we're all dying because we look up something on Google. But there's also a lot of anecdotal information from parents, firsthand accounts of what they did for their own child.
谷歌是我们今天取得的最不可思议的突破之一。是的，它会吓到很多病人，以为我们都快死了，因为我们在谷歌上查了一些东西。但也有很多来自父母的轶事信息，他们为自己孩子所做的第一手记录。
With all the hybrid stuff and things like that, I think that's a fabulous direction to go with cars in that sense. As someone who grew up around muscle cars, I'll never not be able to not love a muscle car. Not that I don't care about the environment, that's not it. But I adore muscle cars.
有了混合动力之类的东西，从这个意义上说，我认为这是一个很好的发展方向。作为一个在肌肉车周围长大的人，我永远不会不爱肌肉车。不是我不关心环境，不是这样的。但我喜欢肌肉车。
Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them.
哦,我想有很多人今天在网上买卖,他们得到的信息,但当时间输入他们的信用卡他们三思而后行,因为他们不确定如何会走出去,这可能意味着什么。
The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don't understand the software parts of it. And so you really can't make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple's the only company that has everything under one roof.
大多数个人电脑公司的工程学早就过时了。在消费类电子产品公司，他们不了解其中的软件部分。所以现在你真的不能在其他任何地方生产你在苹果可以生产的产品。苹果是唯一一家把所有东西都放在一个屋檐下的公司。
Everything that works on the Internet depends on a lot of people collaborating, but there's also these rules that you see across all the really successful platforms. Many, many, many more people consume the information or benefit from the information than actually contribute the information.
所有在互联网上运行的东西都依赖于很多人的协作，但是在所有真正成功的平台上也有这些规则。许多、许多、许多人消费信息或从信息中受益，而不是实际贡献信息。
I am in the process of trying to decide whether I can make a substantive and productive contribution to the policy-making process. I was always there because I wanted to work on the pressing issues of the day - I'm interested in energy, I'm interested in the climate bill and technology policy.
我正在努力决定我是否能对决策过程作出实质性和富有成效的贡献。我一直都在那里，因为我想处理当下紧迫的问题——我对能源感兴趣，我对气候法案和技术政策感兴趣。
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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。
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
对于一项成功的技术，现实必须凌驾于公共关系之上，因为自然是不会被愚弄的。
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。
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。
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。
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?