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科技
Technology
The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.
最终的搜索引擎将基本理解世界上的一切，它总是会给你正确的东西。我们离那还有很长很长的路要走。
Content and technology are strange bed fellows. We are joined together. Sometimes we misunderstand each other. But isn't that after all the definition of marriage?
内容和技术是奇怪的同床异梦。我们在一起。有时我们会误解对方。但这难道不是婚姻的定义吗?
So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction.
所以人们开始想知道人类将会发生什么。技术以越来越大的力量不断进步，无论是为了好还是为了毁灭。
Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
信息技术和商业正变得密不可分。我认为没有人能在不讨论另一个问题的情况下，对其中一个问题进行有意义的讨论。
I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact technology wasn't very good no matter how much money you had.
我在舞蹈演员和舞蹈制作中使用了磁带环。我有非常时髦的原始设备，事实上，无论你有多少钱，技术都不是很好。
Practically everyone is going to have a general purpose computer in their pocket, it's so easy to underestimate that, that has got to be the really, really big one.
实际上每个人的口袋里都会有一台通用电脑，这很容易被低估，这一定是一台非常非常大的电脑。
The Connection Machine was the most powerful supercomputer in the world. It is a complex supercomputer and it will take forever to completely describe how it works.
连接机是世界上最强大的超级计算机。这是一台复杂的超级计算机，要想完全描述它是如何工作的，需要永远的时间。
Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality.
从此以后，空间和时间都注定要消失在纯粹的阴影中，只有二者的结合才能保持独立的现实。
We have spent quite a bit of time considering a good space game, and I can't really say anything at this point, but we are definitely still interested in that area.
我们已经花了相当多的时间考虑一款好的太空游戏，在这一点上我不能说什么，但我们仍然对这一领域感兴趣。
As you say, the way string theory requires all these extra dimensions and this comes from certain consistency requirements about how string should behave and so on.
正如你所说，弦理论需要所有这些额外的维度这来自于弦应该如何表现的一致性要求等等。
Well, we're trying to patch and fix and put a cast on a broken system here. You can call it what you want, but we'll continue to purchase power in a private market.
嗯，我们正试图修补和修复一个坏掉的系统。你可以随便叫它什么，但我们将继续在私人市场购买电力。
The space shuttle has been a fantastic vehicle. It is unlike any other thing that we've ever built. Its capabilities have carried several hundred people into space.
航天飞机是一种神奇的交通工具。它不像我们做过的任何其他东西。它的能力已经将数百人送入太空。
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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。
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?
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。
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。