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科技
Technology
I visited a scientist who had a helmet with magnetic fields controlled by computer sequences that could profoundly affect your mood and your perceptions.
我拜访了一位科学家，他有一顶头盔，头盔上的磁场由计算机序列控制，可以深刻地影响你的情绪和感知。
We have to pay close attention to what we see, and be ready to work with the unexpected according to the basic principles of systems biology and medicine.
我们必须密切关注我们所看到的，并根据系统生物学和医学的基本原理，准备好处理意想不到的事情。
Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.
科技是上帝的礼物。在生命的恩赐之后，这也许是神最大的恩赐。它是文明、艺术和科学之母。
Right now, I am doing the reverse of molecular gastronomy. I'm working with scientists to find ingredients and produce that are proven to be good for you.
现在，我正在做分子烹饪学的反面。我正在和科学家们一起寻找对你有好处的成分和农产品。
But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses.
但是最新的研究表明，大脑的许多特性是由基因决定的，并不依赖于来自感官的信息。
The removal of an electron from the surface of an atom - that is, the ionization of the atom - means a fundamental structural change in its surface layer.
从原子表面移除一个电子——也就是原子的电离——意味着它的表层发生了根本性的结构变化。
I don't think that Yahoo or any other Internet company should try to become a television network. We will be nowhere if we have to create our own content.
我不认为雅虎或任何其他互联网公司应该试图成为一个电视网络。如果我们必须创建自己的内容，我们将无处可去。
At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around.
然而，目前我不认为网络是一个很好的书籍媒介，书籍应该是真正便宜的轻量级平装书，你可以到处乱扔。
Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public.
或者在其他作品中，我也把声音投射到一个立方体的扬声器中。声音可以在公共场所以任何速度垂直和斜向移动。
There is hardly an activity that a person can think about that does not intrinsically involve energy, most of which is currently provided by fossil fuels.
人们所能想到的几乎没有一项活动不涉及能源，而目前大部分能源都是由化石燃料提供的。
Thirdly, as we move through this process of integrating the communications, we will begin to emulate more of the World Wide Web in our work in the future.
第三，当我们通过这个整合交流的过程时，我们将在未来的工作中开始更多地模仿万维网。
Already we Viewers, when not viewing, have begun to whisper to one another that the more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
我们这些看电视的人，在不看电视的时候，就已经开始窃窃私语，说我们的沟通方式越复杂，我们的沟通就越少。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
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。
People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?
人们今天比以往活得更长。他们过着更快乐的生活，拥有更多的知识和信息。所有这些都是通信技术的结果。有什么不好的?
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。
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。
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。