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科技
Technology
The microgravity or the very, very low amount of gravity that we have up in space forces some changes in different processes. It forces changes in us as human beings.
微重力，或者说太空中非常非常低的重力，迫使不同的过程发生变化。它迫使我们人类发生改变。
In many cases, the user interface to a program is the most important part for a commercial company: whether the programs works correctly or not seems to be secondary.
在许多情况下，程序的用户界面是商业公司最重要的部分:程序是否正确工作似乎是次要的。
I refuse to this day to do e-mail because everybody I know that does it, it takes another two or three hours a day. I don't want to give two or three more hours away.
我今天拒绝写电子邮件，因为我认识的每个人每天都要花两三个小时来写电子邮件。我不想再浪费两三个小时了。
Everyone wants to talk about it, and right now music, flat-panel televisions, a whole host of new handheld devices are fun to talk about and very exciting to look at.
每个人都想谈论它，现在音乐，平板电视，一大堆新的手持设备都很有趣，看起来也很令人兴奋。
Sometimes, when my wife and I were going out to dinner, I would take my laptop with me and work in the car, so as to take advantage of the half hour going and coming.
有时候，当我和我的妻子出去吃饭的时候，我会带上我的笔记本电脑，在车里工作，这样就可以利用这半个小时来来回回。
This is like the telephone problem - no one wants to have the first one. But we are seeing a lot of people who want some sort of technology to solve the spam problem.
这就像电话问题一样——没有人想要第一个。但是我们看到很多人想要某种技术来解决垃圾邮件问题。
Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.
教育技术与学校建设相辅相成。现代化、教育设施更新、教育投资等都包括在内。
You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize.
你可以参与电子、电脑、智力游戏……有很多创造力和大脑的工作。有很多模型火车，人们没有意识到。
If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power.
如果我们生活在一个信息驱动我们行为的世界里，我们所获得的信息就会成为最重要的东西。选择信息的人拥有权力。
Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation and to transform the way business is done in the securities industry.
今天，竞争、技术和全球化的力量已经融合在一起，以刺激创新和改变证券行业的经营方式。
There is more than a mere suspicion that the scientist who comes to ask metaphysical questions and turns away from metaphysical answers may be afraid of those answers.
这不仅仅是一个怀疑，科学家谁来问形而上学的问题，并偏离形而上学的答案可能害怕这些答案。
Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper.
机器根本没有取代校对员。文案编辑，校对和更多，更多，使用拼写检查作为工具，但阅读每一个出现在报纸上的单词。
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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?
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。
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 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?
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。