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科技
Technology
Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.
罗马文明在其技术范围内对时间和空间的掌握与我们今天所取得的成就相当。
I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
我意识到你不能用昨天的工具来沟通今天的世界。基本上，那就是我脑袋里的那盏大灯。
It is more likely that more than a century will pass before we know the structure of the chemical atoms as thoroughly as we do our solar system.
更有可能的是，一个多世纪之后，我们才会像太阳系一样彻底了解化学原子的结构。
If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library.
如果我们能把一个人送上月球，并对人类基因组进行测序，我们应该能够设计出类似于一个通用数字公共图书馆的东西。
I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.
我认为技术在应用之前是道德中立的。只有当我们把它们用于善或恶时，它们才会变成善或恶。
The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small.
对转机的掌握是航空作为一种交通工具如何变得实用的故事。这是一个关于世界如何变小的故事。
The Internet is a great information tool, and can be a place where kids learn, but we must remember that when kids are online, they are in public.
互联网是一个伟大的信息工具，可以是孩子们学习的地方，但我们必须记住，当孩子们在线时，他们是在公共场合。
Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed.
自从爱因斯坦发展了相对论，卢瑟福和玻尔革命性地改变了物理学，我们对世界的认识也发生了根本性的变化。
The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.
石油公司把核能看作是他们的竞争对手，这会降低他们的利润，所以他们发布了很多关于核能的虚假信息。
Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels.
卫星广播使许多封闭社会中渴望获得信息的居民能够绕开国家控制的电视频道。
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
科学的永恒功绩在于，它通过对人的思想采取行动，克服了人在自身和自然面前的不安全感。
Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.
风格曾经是人类灵魂和有限的工具之间的互动。在数字时代，它将只能来自灵魂。
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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。
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 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。
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。
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。