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Technology
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
人类正在为所有错误的理由获取所有正确的技术。
I'm a big laser believer - I really think they are the wave of the future.
我非常相信激光——我真的认为它们是未来的潮流。
Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.
电影制作就是用你所掌握的最好的技术讲述一个故事。
Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.
数据是一件宝贵的东西,比系统本身持续的时间更长。
Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.
创新是精英们在成为公众需求之前的心血来潮。
I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.
我对生物技术对人们生活方式的影响很感兴趣。
If it doesn't come through the Internet, it's not really compelling to me.
如果它不是通过互联网传播的,对我来说也不是很有吸引力。
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
如果这种情况持续下去,人类除了按下按钮的手指外,所有的四肢都会萎缩。
And bring me a hard copy of the Internet so I can do some serious surfing.
给我带一份因特网的硬拷贝,这样我就可以认真地上网了。
Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.
动画的目的是要有模糊的功能。这是艺术形式的一部分。
As a society, we haven't spent as much time building the citizen Internet.
作为一个社会,我们没有花那么多时间来建设公民互联网。
Revenue has been under pressure as these Internet options become available.
随着这些互联网选择的出现,谷歌的收入一直面临压力。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
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 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 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。
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 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。
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。