A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
科技
Technology
Anything can change, because the smartphone revolution is still in the early stages.
任何事情都有可能改变，因为智能手机革命仍处于早期阶段。
I think I was first to do live performances on a modern electronic sound synthesizer.
我想我是第一个用现代电子声音合成器进行现场表演的人。
I've been really excited about some new cutting edge electronic music and technology.
我对一些最新的电子音乐和技术感到非常兴奋。
If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.
如果是这样的话，我相信技术可能会达到他们的水平。
A lot of the ideas or even individual technologies behind Khan Academy are not novel.
可汗学院背后的许多想法甚至个人技术都不新鲜。
It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.
在一个和我们一样快的世界里写科幻小说是很奇怪的。
I have to admit that I'm one of those people that thinks the dishwasher is a miracle.
我必须承认，我是那种认为洗碗机是个奇迹的人。
As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.
随着机器变得越来越像人，人也会变得越来越像机器。
Aviation - and space travel, in particular - have always been especially captivating.
航空——尤其是太空旅行——一直特别迷人。
The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.
数码相机是一个伟大的发明，因为它让我们回忆。立即。
Sure the Internet is the future, but what we do on the Internet is still very primal.
当然，互联网是未来，但我们在互联网上做的仍然是非常原始的。
I don't believe in email. I'm an old-fashioned girl. I prefer calling and hanging up.
我不相信电子邮件。我是个守旧的女孩。我更喜欢打电话然后挂断。
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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。
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?
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。
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。
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。