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Technology
As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it.
一旦你进入任何一个生物过程的任何一个细节，你就会发现它是开放式的，关于它需要发现什么。
I only used a cell phone for the first time after I was released. I had difficulty coping with it because it seemed so small and insubstantial.
我只是在获释后第一次使用手机。我很难应付它，因为它看起来是那么小，那么不真实。
Radio, newspapers, they were normal parts of my life. In those days, you had to go somewhere to watch television and leave something to see it.
收音机，报纸，这些都是我生活中正常的一部分。在那些日子里，你不得不去某个地方看电视，然后留下一些东西来看。
A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.
编程语言是用来思考程序的，而不是用来表达你已经想到的程序。它应该是一支铅笔，而不是一支钢笔。
Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.
技术为我们提供了减少时间和距离障碍的设施——电报和电缆、电话、收音机等等。
I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.
我不知道宇宙中是否有任何智能设计的证据，但我可以向你保证，成千上万的日常产品中没有。
Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
现代发明已经淘汰了纺车，同样的进步规律使今天的女人与她的祖母截然不同。
People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?
当我告诉人们我的龙是有科学依据的时候，人们都吓坏了……你还能把什么叫做基因工程生命形式?
The world is really run by the Web. There's so much information out there that you can click and keep going down the rabbit hole finding stuff.
世界实际上是由网络控制的。有这么多的信息，你可以点击它，继续往下找东西。
In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field.
事实上，我想看到的是成千上万的计算机科学家可以为所欲为。这才是这个领域真正的进步。
We are involved in technology development for, you know, missions that we hope to plan that would take us to an asteroid and eventually to Mars.
我们参与了技术开发，我们希望计划将我们带到小行星并最终到达火星的任务。
It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.
要想在任何层次上移动、生活和操作，都不可能不留下个人信息的痕迹、零零碎碎、看似毫无意义的片段。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
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。
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 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。
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。