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科技
Technology
There are technologies you couldn't predict at all when I started.
在我刚开始的时候，有些技术是你根本无法预测的。
Science moves, but slowly slowly, creeping on from point to point.
科学在前进，但很慢很慢，从一个点爬到另一个点。
As a young boy, I was taught in high school that hacking was cool.
当我还是个小男孩的时候，我在高中就被教导说黑客很酷。
It is appallingly obvious that our technology exceeds our humanity.
很明显，我们的技术超越了我们的人性。
The time is right for electric cars - in fact the time is critical.
对电动汽车来说，现在正是时候——事实上，时机非常关键。
A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it.
打字机是记录思想的工具，而不是表达思想的工具。
Yes, sampling has changed not just my way of playing and composing.
是的，采样不仅改变了我演奏和作曲的方式。
Today, technology is moving faster than the research establishment.
今天，技术的发展速度比科研机构快。
Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?
谁会想到电话会把图画带回来呢?
The internet is a total inversion of television. It's the opposite.
互联网完全是电视的翻版。这是相反的。
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
在软件系统中，早起的鸟儿有虫吃。
Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.
科技正在让手势变得精确而残忍，而男性也在其中。
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Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say.
技术给了我们力量，但它没有也不能告诉我们如何使用这种力量。多亏了科技，我们可以在世界各地即时交流，但它仍然不能帮助我们知道该说什么。
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。
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。
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。
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。