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科技
Technology
People try to treat technology as an object, and it can't be. It can only be a channel.
人们试图把技术当作一个物体，但它不能。它只能是一个频道。
There are many applications for which film is going to be better, for a very long time.
在很长一段时间内，有很多应用会使胶片变得更好。
The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.
人类的大脑必须继续把问题框定下来，让电子机器来解决。
I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
我不断提醒人们，犯罪不是靠技术解决的;它是由人来解决的。
You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels.
你看，温室效应是燃烧化石燃料或旧碳燃料的直接结果。
The space shuttle is a better & safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
航天飞机是一种比挑战者号事故前更好更安全的火箭。
There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.
在计算机的历史上，从来没有过出乎意料的短调试周期。
Look, the media are trapped by changes in the technology and business of their industry.
看，媒体被他们行业的技术和商业的变化所困。
Behavioral tracking is an area today that has very few regulations and even fewer rules.
行为跟踪是当今一个几乎没有规则，甚至更少规则的领域。
An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.
一项发明必须在它完成的世界里有意义，而不是在它开始的世界里。
The world has just got more dangerous because the things we use have got more dangerous.
世界变得越来越危险，因为我们使用的东西变得越来越危险。
The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm.
对于任何显示技术，我们至少应该希望它不会造成伤害。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. It's logic-based creativity.
你可能不认为程序员是艺术家，但编程是一种极具创造性的职业。它是基于逻辑的创造力。
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。
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 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 kind of environment that we developed Google in, the reason that we were able to develop a search engine, is the web was so open. Once you get too many rules, that will stifle innovation.
我们开发谷歌的环境，我们能够开发搜索引擎的原因，是网络是如此的开放。一旦你制定了太多的规则，就会扼杀创新。
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。