TED英语演讲：第六感到底准不准-.doc

——敬业、专业—— TED英语演讲：第六感到底准不准 PAGE PAGE 2 　　An evolutionary biologist at Purdue University named William Muir studied chickens. He was interested in productivity — I think it’s something that concerns all of us — but it’s easy to measure in chickens because you just 　　I’ve been intrigued by this question of whether we could evolve or develop a sixth sense -- a sense that would give us seamless access and easy access to meta-information or information that may exist somewhere that may be relevant to help us make the right decision about whatever it is that we’re coming across. 　　有一个问题我思考了很久， 就是我们能否进化出一种第六感官。 这种感官可以让我们快速的 便捷的获得元信息， 或者是其他的一些信息， 在我们需要做出一些决定的时候， 这些信息能帮助我们做出正确的选择。 　　And some of you may argue, well, don’t today’s cell phones do that already? But I would say no. When you meet someone here at TED -- and this is the top networking place, of course, of the year -- you don’t shake somebody’s hand and then say, “Can you hold on for a moment while I take out my phone and Google you?” 　　你们可能会说， 当今的手机不正是如此吗? 但是，我不认同。 假设，当你在TED遇到某人， TED，毫无疑问，是每年最佳的社交场所。 难道你会不跟人家握手， 然后说：“你能等一会吗? 我要用手机Google一下你。” 　　Or when you go to the supermarket and you’re standing there in that huge aisle of different types of toilet papers, you don’t take out your cell phone, and open a browser, and go to a website to try to decide which of these different toilet papers is the most ecologically responsible purchase to make. 　　或者，当你在超市里， 站在一排巨大的货架前， 面对着各种各样的厕纸， 难道你会拿出手机，打开浏览器 登录一个网站，尝试去决定 到底哪一种厕纸 才是最环保的，最应该买的? 　　So we don’t really have easy access to all this relevant information that can just help us make optimal decisions about what to do next and what actions to take. And so my research group at the Media Lab has been developing a series of inventions to give us access to this information in a sort of easy way, without requiring that the user changes any of their behavior. 　　所以说，我们并没有一个便捷的渠道 去获取这些信息，这些能帮助我们做出应该要干什么的最佳决定的信息。 因此，我的实验室的研发团队完成了一系列的发明，在不改变用户行为的条件下， 帮助用户快速简单的 获取这些信息。 　　And I’m