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科技
Technology
I really don't spend any time on the Internet, so I guess I live a little under a rock in that respect.
我真的不花时间上网，所以我想我在这方面有点保守。
Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits.
用于天气预报，甚至用于气候预报的计算机模型已经达到极限。
The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.
今天的人类状况比以往任何时候都要好，而科技是其中一个原因。
You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect.
例如，如果你知道巴西坚果基因会产生过敏反应，你可以消除它。
Software patents are dangerous to software developers because they impose monopolies on software ideas.
软件专利对软件开发人员来说是危险的，因为它们对软件思想施加了垄断。
I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It's really a different product category.
我想将来会有很多类似平板电脑的设备。这真的是一个不同的产品类别。
Many of the genetically modified foods will be safe, I'm sure. Will most of them be safe? Nobody knows.
我相信许多转基因食品是安全的。他们中的大多数人会安全吗?没有人知道。
The map of the world shows no country called Technopolis, yet in many ways we are already its citizens.
世界地图上没有一个国家被称为技术城邦，但在很多方面，我们已经是它的公民了。
I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines.
我想象着有一天，我们对机器人的意义就像狗对人类的意义一样，我支持机器。
Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail.
基本上，如果禁止反向工程，那么很多开源社区注定会失败。
Let's not kid ourselves here, robots already run most of our world. We'll be their butlers soon enough.
别自欺欺人了，机器人已经控制了我们世界的大部分地区。我们很快就会成为他们的管家。
If everything moves along and there are no major catastrophes we're basically headed towards holograms.
如果一切进展顺利，没有重大灾难，我们基本上就会走向全息图。
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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 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。
Wouldn't it be great if the technology we used to take care of ourselves was as good as the technology we use to make money?
如果我们用来照顾自己的技术和我们用来赚钱的技术一样好，那不是很棒吗?
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。
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。