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科技
Technology
All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now.
所有的工具都有其内在的政治性，而技术则是当下的工具。
We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas.
我们每天都生活在虚拟环境中，这是由我们的想法决定的。
I love sci-fi, computer games. I love any escapes. Give me them all.
我喜欢科幻，电脑游戏。我喜欢任何逃跑。把它们都给我。
I don't really think anything Microsoft does puts pressure on Apple.
我真的不认为微软做的任何事情会给苹果带来压力。
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
就像火药对战争的作用一样，印刷机对思维的作用也是如此。
Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology.
众所周知，有创造力的人接受新技术的速度最慢。
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
任何足够先进的技术都与魔法无异。
The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people.
一项技术最重要的是它如何改变人们。
Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.
微软并不是邪恶的，他们只是做了很烂的操作系统。
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
位图显示媒体兼容点阵或激光打印机。
The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.
互联网将审查视为一种故障，并绕过它。
Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one.
许多人错误地认为新技术可以抵消旧技术。
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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。
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 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。
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。
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。
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?