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科技
Technology
Sure I have a cell-phone, so I don't have to remember everyone's number anymore, but that really wasn't a core part of my brain.
当然我有手机，所以我不用再记每个人的电话号码了，但那真的不是我大脑的核心部分。
Whereas with us - what you hear is what's happening right then and there on the stage - so we don't need no stinking technology.
而对于我们来说——你听到的是在舞台上正在发生的事情——所以我们不需要任何糟糕的技术。
You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right now.
你知道，我想我们可以用一个关于技术的神话来帮助我们现在通过这些特殊的现代水域。
If you don't have an E-mail address, you're in the Netherworld. If you don't have your own World Wide Web page, you're a nobody.
如果你没有电子邮件地址，你就在阴间。如果你没有自己的万维网页面，你就是一个无名小卒。
Those innocent screen savers, pictures and games that we once downloaded with abandon have much more ability to play havoc today.
那些我们曾经随意下载的无辜的屏幕保护程序、图片和游戏，如今有了更大的破坏能力。
Multi-touch sensing was designed to allow nontechies to do masterful things while allowing power users to be even more virtuosic.
多点触摸感应的设计初衷是为了让非技术人员能够熟练地做一些事情，同时让高级用户变得更加虚拟。
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
电话(名词)是魔鬼的发明，它消除了使讨厌的人保持距离的一些好处。
There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.
有证据表明，社会的衰落与科技和电影工业的工业化成正比。
Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.
科技社会成功地增加了快乐的机会，但却很难产生快乐。
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
科学也许已经找到了一种治疗大多数罪恶的方法;但它并没有找到解决最糟糕问题的办法——人类的冷漠。
The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
人是自然系统的一部分，自然系统趋向于自我平衡、自我调节、自我净化。但在科技领域并非如此。
I plan on continuing to explore all the possibilities of technology, and then finally film and television and movies. Embrace it.
我计划继续探索所有技术的可能性，最后是电影、电视和电影。拥抱它。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。